At 2:39 PM -0800 2/16/06, Phil M wrote:
Personally, I think that this doubles capacity instead of halving it. Sure, there appear to be more rants on the NUG than question/answers, but it doesn't seem like the volume of messages have changed dramatically since the Forums came online.
Except that when you need an answer from Aaron, for example, you can no longer get one.
Unless you have other ways of accessing him, which I do. Jon, it turns out that Socket.Error is a special case; it's designed to fire immediately, even if you're in the middle of processing some other event, so that your code can realize that the socket is pretty much worthless at that point.
I personally prefer the NUG (and mail lists in general) over forums because they seem to be more efficient and time relevant to me. With forums you need to actively poll for topics that interest you
Me too. I can't stand any web forums, except the ones at lugnet.com, which are particularly well designed -- but those are also accessible as mailing lists (and by NNTP for that matter). That's the sort of system we ought to have, if there are people who prefer checking a web forum to checking their email.
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