Well, I've yet to see a forum where you couldn't "scroll through the list" of questions posted.
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 12:04 -0600, Ken Springer wrote: > On 6/3/11 11:05 AM, Roland Hughes wrote: > > Forums are far more useful as a "help database" than 1970s mailing list > > archives ever will be. Forums allow problems and threads to have > > statuses, such as SOLVED. They also allow the original poster and/or > > the host to flag the message which actually solved the problem. > > But I find the much harder to use to find information I'm interested in. > > Searching is always problematic for me. I seem to use the word "bucket" > for X when almost everyone else uses "pail". :-) That seems to fall > short of being user friendly for me. > > Plus, I have to spend the time forming the questions. > > I really like the newsgroup format, where I can simply scroll through > the subjects and then read what I find interesting, and actually learn > something new, rather than waiting until I have a problem that I need > solved. > > As you probably read in my other post, I don't like the true mailing > list format either, but gmane.org solves that for me. > > > > -- > Ken > > Mac OS X 10.6.7 > Firefox 3.6.17 > Thunderbird 3.1.10 > LibreOffice 3.3.2 > > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
