[linux-audio-user] Around the wiki.freeaudiosoftware.org - forum

Shayne O'Connor forums at machinehasnoagenda.com
Thu Aug 25 19:34:14 EDT 2005


Christoph Eckert wrote:
>>man, do you know how many web forums there are out there?!!!
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> 
> Yes, and these most often use the default PHPBB design ;-) .
> 
> 
>>i've 
>>really gotta say that if it wasn't for web-based forums, i'd still be
>>... well, computer-illiterate. i'd say that forums have helped me out
>>of hopeless situations 80% of the time to 20% for mailing lists. it
>>is *much* easier to search a forum for an *existing* solution than to
>>scour mailing lists.
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> Hey, that's great! OTOH, using search engines: Most mailing lists are 
> gatewayed to HTML so even solutions in mailing lists can be found using 
> the search engines.
> 

is true ... but still, most search engines lead me to web forums - 
unless of course, i'm searching for a linux audio solution!

shayne



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