[linux-audio-user] move LAU to a forum?

[Nick Scheer]

Either way is fine with me. The problem with forums, is that if it is
on a slow server, or if it is badly organized from a user interface
perspective, it can be a nightmare to use.

Plus, you often end up with a lot of bickering about how it should
look/feel/behave. Also, *someone* ends up stuck with spending a lot of
time maintaining it, and I imagine it is much more costly from a
hosting perspective. PHPBB also tends to get borked by script-kiddies
out to prove their l33t-ness by vandalizing any site they can.

Mailing lists are nice, as you have a lot of flexibility as to how to
read/organize/archive-I personally like Gmail's ability to auto-label,
as well as organizing by discussion thread, and allowing really good
searchability, whereas a forum dictates the entire user experience for
you.

--Nick

On 12/24/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> Hallo,
> Leonard Ritter hat gesagt: // Leonard Ritter wrote:
>
> > i remember that there was discussion because the current maintainer
> > wanted to pass on the LAU and LAD lists.
> >
> > i just had a refreshing conversation with one of the newer generation
> > internet users and he had trouble understanding what a mailing list is.
>
> It's "CC" (carbon copy) on steroids.
>
> > and indeed, why not move to a forum? are there arguments against it?
>
> There are many arguments against it.
>
> But why bother, LAU already *is* a forum as well:
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.users
>
> Ciao
> --
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
>