On 02/02/2011 07:52 AM, Cia Watson wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:21:25 +1300 > Jonathan Evatt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was wondering if the LO team have any intention of setting up a forum? >> It's a pretty simple thing to do these days, and surely it would make >> problem solving much easier than doing things via a mail list where every >> one ends up having to receive everyone else's emails just to find the answer >> to their own. >> >> Is a forum in the works? I highly recommend it. > > +1 to this idea. I just subscribed to the digest instead of individual > emails, but the digest seems to be sending two of every message or > something. I'm reading it in claws mail. There also isn't a 'link' or > 'anchor' in the digest to be able to move to a specific message. One thing > I do like is that if I reply, it's to a specific message such as this one, > and not the entire digest. I hate it when people reply to one message in a > digest and quote the whole thing. > > However, one issue with forums is spamming, though there are some ways of > dealing with that on an automated basis. It can be a hassle. An easy way > to search the mail list would possibly serve the same purpose. > > As it is, as I rarely even use LO or OO and traffic on the list is > getting heavier I'll probably quit the digest too. (My preferred word > processor for most things right now is AbiWord and neither LO or OO will > format .abw files properly. However AbiWord does format odt files > properly. Go figure. ) >
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