Forum's are not a bad thing, but from what i've seen in the past, mailing lists seem to work better. The problem with forums is that someone has to take the additional step to maintain the forum, and check it for questions. A forum really only works as well as the users do. With mailing lists, the message is delivered and easy for anyone to reply to, but with the forums there is also the extra step of loading a webpage and logging in just to see whats available, and then after that proceed to answering questions.
All in all, a forum can be good if people have the time and are willing to answer posts, but mailing lists still offer the best results. my two cents worth -- Aaron Daniel Henninger wrote: > Yeah =D I know. I dunno, I suppose I'm trying to figure out if > there's either a "fun" reason to set up a forum or a real "good" > reason to. Like are people more comfortable with that than a mailing > list? Or . . . like is there something more condusive about forums to > mailing lists for discussion? I guess it could make for better > categorization of discussions, but . . . oh I dunno. =) > > Daniel > > On Feb 12, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Magnus Henoch wrote: > >> Daniel Henninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Someone requested that a Forum be added for the .. well at least >>> PyICQ and PyAIM. Personally, I don't see what that buys you over >>> mailing lists and conference rooms. That said, I'm not opposed to >>> the idea of others think it would be useful. What do you all think? >>> Could easily set one up on blathersource. >> >> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.py-transports is _almost_ a >> forum ;) >> >> Magnus >> _______________________________________________ >> py-transports mailing list >> py-transports@blathersource.org >> http://www.modevia.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/py-transports > > _______________________________________________ > py-transports mailing list > py-transports@blathersource.org > http://www.modevia.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/py-transports > -- Aaron Axelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great hosting, low prices. Modevia Web Services LLC -- http://www.modevia.com
