Les Mikesell <les <at> futuresource.com> writes: > > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:32, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: > > > I still don't get why are Web forums so dreaded, but that's just me... I > > haven't seen a *single* reason why not to make it so... > > They are really unhandy if you are interested in more than a couple > of things. You certainly can't expect the people with answers to > your questions to hop around through dozens of them just so you > don't have to sort your inbox... > > > Unless, of > > course you still want to recieve 500+ e-mail messages if you are away of > > your computer for a day or two and could not cancel mail delivery > > temporarily (if you don't get the digest, of course). > > That's not a problem. Procmail or most mailers will sort them > in a jiffy and you can catch up at your own speed. > > > To each their own, > > I just don't get why people don't like the web forums idea... > > Who's going to do that extra work looking for questions to answer? If > a question drops in your mailbox and you happen to know the answer it's > a couple of seconds to solve someone's problem. Who's going to bounce > though a bunch of web sites for that? > Maybe I'm just thick, but I don't use the "mail-list" at all anymore. I got sick and tired of the quantity of mail, but more than that because of the mailer used at the office I couldn't reply without HTML mail (build issues)....ugh!!! Alexander Dalloz pointed me to gmane.org and I've been there, and happy, ever since!!! I can reply (hence you see this note), I can read whatever it is I want without having to peruse through tons of mail or a digest. My only complaint is I can't seem to get to the archives from gmane.org, but that may not be their issue -- it could be my lazy tendancies. I just go to the Red Hat site and navigate the archives from there.... I did Linux for 8 years without any list. Just plugged away with books and friendly advice from others. Man, when I found this list a couple years ago it was heaven-sent!!!! I've been provided with tons of information here (even provided some)!!! Any change should be made thoughtfully with the user community in mind, afterall this is a community project. To drive away those that make it work would be a tragedy...... Just my two pennies cheers goose Gosswiller Reg. Linux User: #757455
