Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-21 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:31:02PM +0200, Gregor Schreier wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:27:38AM -0400, Chuck wrote: ... and http://archives.linux-vserver.org/ I don't see a search option there, but I guess we could always make google index the pages and

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:09:11PM +0200, Evert Meulie wrote: Hi all! For anyone who is interested I have created a VServer forum on my site: http://vserver.meulie.net/ thanks! I changed the entry to 'Unofficial' and asked to contact me at IRC, don't know when I will be there actually but

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Evert
Hi! Well, my main reasoning was that there is no VServer Forum yet... There is a mailing list, but with mailing lists it's much more difficult to reply nicely to postings when you don't have the original message anymore. The forum does not have this problem. Here all messages postings can

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Tor Rune Skoglund
Evert wrote: Well, my main reasoning was that there is no VServer Forum yet... There is a mailing list, but with mailing lists it's much more difficult to reply nicely to postings when you don't have the original message anymore. The forum does not have this problem. Here all messages

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak,,,
postings, IRC logs and poorly styled/incomplete web pages (the flower page being one example) is not the way to have it in the long run. flower page rocks. Everyone and their brother creating their own forum is not the answer, there already is a vserver wiki, if you want to work on

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Tor Rune Skoglund
Dariush Pietrzak,,, wrote: postings, IRC logs and poorly styled/incomplete web pages (the flower page being one example) is not the way to have it in the long run. flower page rocks. Well, thats a matter of opinion... For the average user I would think the view would be

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Dariush Pietrzak,,,
Well, thats a matter of opinion... For the average user I would think the view would be different... :) I have never seen this mythical average user you keep on talking about. I always thought that I'm him, but you seem to be implying that he's got different views then me. already is a

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tor Rune Skoglund wrote: | And btw, not _anyone_ has the required knowledge about vserver to write | good documentation | on the wiki anyway. Nothing is worse than wrong and outdated | documentation... Which is one of the many problems with forums.

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Tor Rune Skoglund
Dariush Pietrzak,,, wrote: Well, thats a matter of opinion... For the average user I would think the view would be different... :) I have never seen this mythical average user you keep on talking about. I always thought that I'm him, but you seem to be implying that he's got different views

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:30:11AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: the main question is, do we need 'another forum'? Mailing lists are a lot better than web forums (IMHO). I've dropped out of more than one community when they transferred to web forums from mailing lists (although some people might

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Chuck
On Thursday 20 October 2005 06:59 am, Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:30:11AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: the main question is, do we need 'another forum'? Mailing lists are a lot better than web forums (IMHO). I've dropped out of more than one community when they

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:27:38AM -0400, Chuck wrote: I use the gentoo forum as an example. It is large, very active, and I have yet *giggle* I offer tivocommunity and dealdatabase web forums as a counter example; most questions are responded to with do a search and two thirds of the search

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evert Meulie wrote: | Not entirely true... Anyone can reply to a posting that contains a | mistake... 8-) But the wrong information is still there. People like taking shortcuts, and reading replies seems like the long way around, since you already

Re: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread Gregor Schreier
Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:27:38AM -0400, Chuck wrote: ... and http://archives.linux-vserver.org/ I don't see a search option there, but I guess we could always make google index the pages and then have a google search option :-) hi there, it's already done by

RE: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread smagnuson
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Herbert Poetzl Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:30 AM To: Evert Meulie Cc: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org Subject: Re: [Vserver] VServer forum On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:09:11PM +0200, Evert Meulie wrote: Hi all! For anyone who

RE: [Vserver] VServer forum

2005-10-20 Thread smagnuson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Magnuson, Sig Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:36 AM To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org Subject: RE: [Vserver] VServer forum I like the maillist because it does not require anything from me (going to a website