Mikha ben Avraham said: > Personally, I prefer forums to mailing lists. OK. Many people (myself included) don't. > Forums give the ability to > seperate different categories of problems and discussion. Different mailing lists? I prefer bigger categories, that way you don't get so many off-topic posts because a person couldn't decide where to put it. > The major advantage I see for a forum compared to a mailing list is that > a forum is more of a "browsing" medium, That's why the archives are on the web. [snip] > Right now, I go to fedoraforum.org for help, but it doesn't have nearly > the support base these mailing lists have. See the first point. > A combination of the mailing > list membership with a forum would be nervana and would solve what I > believe to be the "taming" problem. Won't happen because of people like me that won't use a forum. Given the choice of a forum or nothing I generally use nothing. -- William Hooper
