25 Aug
2005
25 Aug
'05
8:11 p.m.
Christoph Eckert wrote:
man, do you know how many web forums there are out there?!!! 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. sure, if your problem involves using software that is in
alpa,beta or high development, then a mailing list is perfect to deal
with new problems that may arise and haven't been dealt with before.
sorry, but i think this is such a non-debate ...
Isn't a
wiki a kind of forum too? ...but the entries are of higher
quality
That's the point. Did you ever read a thread in a forum (or even a
thread of a recent discussion on a mailing list provided by a HTML
gateway)?
You read a lot and in the end you know that the discussed problem wasn't
solved. You have messed time.
OTOH, problems solved in a long thread can be
condensed on a wiki page,
in an optimal world by the one who got helped. This way the wiki grows
pages with high quality content.
wikis are a good idea, but they hardly ever progress past a few brief,
initial offerings ... well, the linux audio ones, anyway.
shayne