Dries Langsweirdt schreef:
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.
But it's possible to make a filter in your mail client, so that all mail
of ubuntu-be goes to a separate folder. Together with thread view, I
find this way of working very handy (using Thunderbird).
People talk about stuff
unrelated to the subject of the mail (like I do know).
That will still happen in a forum.
It floods your
mailbox (i got 30 mails from ubuntu-be since this morning),
I don't find that very annoying, as I use a filter.
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'm really almost exclusively a spectator on this list, but still I'm
very much interested in what's going on in Ubuntu-be. If a forum would
be used, I would only watch it a couple of times a year, instead of a day.
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).
I don't think that it would make participation bigger, but rather the
opposite (as well with a mailinglist as with a forum).
These are my ideas of course, if you disagree, please let me know.
That applies for me too.
Mattias
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?
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