John Botscharow wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Meeting Preparation - learning from the past > Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:54:26 -0500 > From: John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > alan c wrote: >> John Botscharow wrote: >> [...] >>> I need to clarify my earlier statement about a foru, I did not mean it >>> as a REPLACEMENT for the list, but rather as a SUPPLEMENTARY form of >>> communication. Your comments about a forum being erb-based and "static >>> which I think you meant as "criticisms" are what I consider the >>> strenfths of a forum. >>> >>> A forum allows for more flexibility in changing the topic heading than a >>> mailing list. Most people do not take the time to change the subject in >>> a reply that is off-topic from the original subject and I do not know if >>> it can be done after the fact in a list archive, but I do know that it >>> can be done on a forum. That would make searching the archives much >>> easier, as well as better linking of posts on the same subject. >>> >>> Both forums and mailing lists are only as good as the people using them. >>> And how good people are is dependent on what they are comfortable with. >>> Your confort zone is mailing lists; mine is forums - mainly because I do >>> not have a mailing list on my site, but I do have a forum. And some >>> forums allow for email posting :-) >> >> I use a number of mailing lists, and almost no forums, this is from choice. >> I find forums quite inconvenient to fit into my life and mostly >> inconvenient to use. If they are well managed like the ubuntu forums, >> they have an advantage of searches with captured data as a resource. >> However, I cannot recall any message in a list such as our marketing >> list here, that I have ever wanted to recall as a resource. >> >> I can predict that I would not make use of forums for a list such as >> this, except perhaps occasionally when I happened to be seeking a very >> specific information on (say) ubuntu forums. >> >> I have found that few forums integrate email use. > > [meant to be read with a sense of hunor] > > Is this distate for forums a cultural thing? Euorpean vs American? > Or is it because you guys have been Linux users for so long that you > never really experienced all the "fun" things that come with email on > Microsoft machines? Spam! Viruses! Trojams! > > Anyway, hope you all got at least a little chuckle out of that. I got > the message. I'll table my suggestion of a forum, or now at least. :-)
I do not have a distaste for forums, I just do not find them convenient, and I only use them on rare occasions. I involve myself in a few dozen lists and can only be active in that number in such an approach if I can have immediate access to all of them without the added need to enter each forum and then orientate my self. I am also a user of threaded display of messages and my chosen email client can be configured to my convenience, while I find most forums cannot. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
