The annoying thing about mailinglist is that nothing is really categorized, nor can it be moderated. Topics are interleaved in the same mail and therefore information is scattered. People talk about stuff unrelated to the subject of the mail (like I do know). It floods your mailbox (i got 30 mails from ubuntu-be since this morning), which makes people to become uninterested about what is going on because they don't want to be involved in all topics etc, etc, etc ... I think there are two options to do it right: or you make several mailinglists on different topics, as suggested on the wiki (but then you make the amount of topics very limited and potentially un-democratic), or you make a real forum (not just a thing that classifies mails based on the subject, because that doesn't work due to aforementioned reasons).
These are my ideas of course, if you disagree, please let me know. On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 16:28 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op vrijdag 28-08-2009 om 10:30 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Dries > Langsweirdt: > > I also think a forum is a good idea. Not only for the reason Ivan > > mentioned, also because the information is persistent then, from which > > information can be condensed in the wiki without too much work. > > So what's the difference between a forum and the already existing > mailing list? > > > -- > Jan Claeys > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
