On Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:00 AM [GMT+1=CET], [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Harold wrote: > >> Perhaps we should alter the format of the list. > > People who don't like email can use OOoForums. > People who like neither mailing lists, nor web forums can use the > gmane news server. > > ###### > > As somebody who receives 2000 messages on a very slow day, I'd much > rather subscribe to a mailing list, than keep checking a web forum or > news group for an answer to my questions. It's not a question of "not liking e-mail". It's a question of not liking hundreds of messages per day. What I said was that we should consider changing to a format where (a) people can post without having to subscribe *and* (b) *those* people *only* get messages relating to the thread(s) they started. This way they don't get hundreds of messages *and* they don't have to keep checking a forum. I also said that there are many web based forums that work like this although I don't know what they are called. The current OOo forum requires that you subscribe (and therefore get hundreds of messages a day). A new user, or someone with a simple query about OOo does *not* want to be invaded by hundreds of irrelevant messages. The gmane news server also generates hundreds of messages per day. The same arguments apply. And you can't not subscribe to it. Harold Fuchs London, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
