Anthony: Then I must not understand what a 'forum' is.
I use the Raining Data forum http://forums.rainingdata.com/ all the time (some say too much). This page has the RD 'products' (D3 NT, D3 Aix, D3 Linux, MvBase etc) neatly illustrated like a table of contents and shows the latest posting. Clicking on a 'product' will give you a listing of the topics within. It also shows you the technical announcements and any other top-down information. Within the topics themselves, you can see the different topics with the originator, number of views and replies and the time/date of the latest reply. This forum is spared a bunch of the static that an email forum offers. There are no redundant posts, no comments about trimming extraneous email content, no 'Fred is out of the office" problems, etc. The topics may take a non-related tangent but not as pervasive as on the U2 one. By seeing the latest date for each thread, you can quickly see if the thread interests you and if the reply is considered 'new'. As one who participates on both, the RD one more organized. Ask TonyG. He's quite visible on both as well. While this forum is web-based and an email forum is not, I don't buy the argument that employers (clients) prevent internet access by their employees as a reason to not participate. Many of my clients have baracuda or other content blocking firewalls etc that I simply am not restricted with. I am considered middle to upper management by all of my clients as well as many 'employee' programmers should be. We are not the low man on the office totem pole. I've got some clients that sharpen their pencil more than most that allow me full access to the internet despite instituting strong-armed policies about employees mis-using the internet on company time. It's a trust thing. I'm a huge ebay participant and would not dare be caught doing ANYTHING with ebay at a client's site on their dime. My 1 cent Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [U2] testing > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Haskett > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Wol: > > > >I just don't get this attitude. Why is it necessary to pick up our toys and go home? > >To say, "if you don't do things my way I'm quitting the team"? There are too many > >postings that forswear any solution that doesn't result in a complicated mess of > >things. > > I don't use forums. I read this mailing list in my spare time, or snatch > moments at work. I find forums time-consuming, and a pain, and I have > better things to do with my time (like working :-) > > At the end of the day, all too often I find that the web is a solution > in search of a problem. It's the wrong tool for many jobs, and imho this > is one of those situations. > > I rest my case with the fact that other people have pointed out - there > ARE fora out there, including those on u2ug. Why are the fora unused > while the mailing list carries on regardless? I put it to you - the > reason is that most people worth listening to prefer a mailing list. > > Cheers, > Wol > -- > Anthony W. Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 'Yings, yow graley yin! Suz ae rikt dheu,' said the blue man, taking the > thimble. 'What *is* he?' said Magrat. 'They're gnomes,' said Nanny. The man > lowered the thimble. 'Pictsies!' Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett 1998 > Visit the MaVerick web-site - <http://www.maverick-dbms.org> Open Source Pick > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
