Frank's point is important:
- for existing users it may be a big hassle to change to a forum. And
to have a forum and a maillist is not the best solution especially when all the pros are in the maillist.
- the forum then at hurleur is a good place to upload patches & etc.
because there they are easier accesable for later. The pro for a forum is that you only need one registration to have access to all the discussion lines (dev, gem, announce, etc.).
On 10/20/06, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think you have a really good point. How can we improve this situation and make the list friendlier?
Hehe, good luck with that one, we are a grumpy and stubborn group! I think a forum would be more successful.
The term "more sucessful" is open for interpretation. One thing that a forum would not be sucessful in would be to drag over me to use it a lot. I guess some others also don't like to use web based forums (IOhannes?). I just prefer writing mails in Vim and with Mutt over having to visit a website with a browser and then fight with HTML textareas. It's just too complicated for me.
Another difference between lists and forums is the push vs. pull nature: mailing lists get delivered to you, a forum has to be visited. That might be why some people are more annoyed by a mailing list in general: mails may unconciously be viewed as a nuisance because we all already get so many of them. Also in a web-forum threads are much more clearly devided and they are more anonymous. The famous "newbie" could even have a special "newbie-quesiton-account". Of course this is possible with mailing lists as well, but more work.
I guess the only real solution would be to have a mailing list software which doubles as a configurable forum - like the old mailing list to NNTP-news gateways.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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