Re: Taming the mailing lists?

From: Mikha ben Avraham (mikhame_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Elliot Lee wrote:

    >If you feel that the Fedora mailing lists are becoming a little
    >unmanageable or are not as valuable as they could be, would you take the
    >time to e-mail me with your thoughts on the problem? (private e-mail is
    >fine) If you think that there's no problem at all, hearing that opinion
    >would be useful too!
    >
    >Thanks in advance,
    >-- Elliot
    >I keep committing atrocities in an attempt to learn from my mistakes.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Personally, I prefer forums to mailing lists. Forums give the ability to
    seperate different categories of problems and discussion.

    The major advantage I see for a forum compared to a mailing list is that
    a forum is more of a "browsing" medium, and mailing list just stuff
    everything down your throat. I want to check what sort of software
    problems people have, but to do so with a mailing list is intimidating
    (when I didn't check my email for a few days and found over a thousand
    emails, I certainly didn't read them all).
     
    Right now, I go to fedoraforum.org for help, but it doesn't have nearly
    the support base these mailing lists have. A combination of the mailing
    list membership with a forum would be nervana and would solve what I
    believe to be the "taming" problem. 

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