I'm also registered at Stack Overflow, participate occasionally, and find it to be an excellent resource. ServerFault might actually be more appropriate for a DBMS than StackOverflow. Advantages that browser medium has over an email forum are that people can come back to topics months or years later and contribute something of value for others to find, and searching/categorization are Much better.
However, there are fundamental differences between a web/browser-based forum and an email forum. I think over the years pretty much the entire MV market has opted away from brower-based forums and opted toward email - with the exception of people who choose to visit Google Groups by browser, and those who visit the few MV-related LinkedIn groups. While email and digests and other features are integral parts of some of the other media, I think the possibility for getting a group as large as this to migrate is slim2none. RSS can replace email digests, but people don't seem to understand RSS the way they understand email, so again I don't think we're going to see a migration. 2 devaluated cents in a slowly improving economy... T > From:Evan Carroll > Not trying to convince people to leave this medium, > but I would like to shine light on a fast growing > medium in need of some more U2 expertise: > StackOverflow, and ServerFault. An open community Q/A > site. > > I've retagged appropriate stackoverflow stuff with the > u2 tag, you can find it here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/u2 > For those with rss readers, both of these sites have > rss feeds for the u2 tags: > http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=u2&sort=hot _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
