Re: Unofficial Debian User Forums
From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 01/21/05
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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:49:32 -0600
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:04 +0000, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 20:45, Jan Jansen wrote:
[snip]
> 1) A mailing list separates content from interface but a forum doesn't. The
And all those pictures and animated smiley faces make them look
like they were designed by particularly silly pre-pubescent girls.
> advantage in this is that I can use my favourite email client and you can
> use your favourite mail client and we can read the same list. A forum has
> the same interface for all users.
If everyone uses Windows XP, who cares (or notices?) if all
forums look the same????
> 2) forums are harder to search than mailing lists.
So who searches?
> 3) most forums have problems threading, (some don't, see slashdot)
Do people who top-post and use Outlook really know what threads
are?
> 4) if we had both forums and Mailing lists it would spilt the body of people
> in half.
>
> 5) whats wrong with mailing lists?
Because particularly silly pre-pubescent girls don't know how to
use them?
They're haaaaaaard..... There's no smiley faaaaceeeessss.....
They're booooooorrrrrrriiiiiinnnnngggggg!!!!!!!!
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