I belong to both the LinkedIn forum and this one.
This is the most active but on LinkedIn they are not discussing whether
to have a forum or not so that cuts out a lot of the traffic.
LinkedIn does not send me a copy of each of my postings and does not
send me duplicate e-mails if someone replies to my posting so that
reduces the e-mail traffic a bit.
This list is a bit more focused on technical issues and the quality of
the help available here could not be better.
Ron
On 29/07/2014 4:35 PM, Paul Benedict wrote:
The apache mailing list is ran by Apache for legal reasons (e.g., proof of
release votes). Regardless, no one on this mailing list has the authority
to change the infrastructure. I am surprised this discussion keeps going.
Cheers,
Paul
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Preston, Dale <
[email protected]> wrote:
While I continue to feel the well-meant, I am sure, chastising for my
sacrilegious proposal, and understand the view of most here, and in-spite
of my own preference for forums, I can accept that the mailing list makes
the most sense for this group. But, never would I recommend FaceBook or
Twitter. I don't have accounts on either and I don't have any knowledge of
how to use them or just barely what they do.
Unfortunately, I do have a Linked-In account so their forum can help me,
too.
Dale
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Todd [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 9:26 AM
To: Maven Users List
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Re: Why not a forum
Apache is an independent non-profit dedicated to the dissemination of free
software. The list archives are freely archivable and indexable by anyone
who wants to -- and there are many sites, such as Nabble and MarkMail, who
do. Using email as the primary means of distribution makes it easy for
third parties to do this.
On the other hand, LinkedIn is a for-profit corporation with a walled
garden solution. It's "free" because it forces people to tie themselves
into LinkedIn's system. It can't be easily archived or indexed without
LinkedIn's permission. And if they decide to end the service, we're in
trouble.
There are people like me who will not even create a LinkedIn profile on
principle. I don't like the company's business practices.
In short, the suggestion is anathema to a free software organization. You
might as well tell us to use Facebook as a discussion medium.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Preston, Dale <
[email protected]> wrote:
I do participate in a couple other Linked-In lists. I'll check that
one out. As the response to this thread shows, though, replies come
pretty quickly in the email list. In any case, the Linked-In list
sounds worth investigating.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Wheeler [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Why not a forum
On 23/07/2014 9:03 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:51:54PM +0000, Preston, Dale wrote:
I was just wondering why this group uses an email list rather than
a
forum. It seems forum software is more searchable and filterable than
email lists.
If it had been my choice: because I'd have to go to a forum every
day (and a hundred others!) while email comes to me. I have plenty
of powerful email search and filter tools right here on my workstation.
Every time someone proposes some other medium for this sort of
communication (forum, Twitter, etc.) my first question is "how can I
get that in email?" I can't think offhand of any forum software
I've used that isn't uncomfortable, inconvenient and hard to search.
The Maven LinkedIn forum will send you e-mails plus LinkedIn will
inform you of activity in discussions in which you are active in all
of the groups to which you belong.
Ron
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