14 Apr
2008
14 Apr
'08
5:52 a.m.
Arthur wrote:
Many mailing lists are not well represented on Google.
That's the fault of the mailing list, not Google. Any mailing list that
is shutting out the most-used web search engine is not serious about
sharing its contributions with others.
Forums are preferred by some and certainly there is room for all
opinions. I use forums to search my own user name and solve problems I
had a year ago.
They can be quite handy,
They're not handy enough that I'll sign up for a forum just so I can
search their contents.
david wrote:
C'mon, I've heard you're a 10! ;-)
Hartmut Noack wrote:
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schoappied schrieb:
How cute! Can we have a picture of you up there, too? ;-)
As I said before, I think a forum is good for
making the community more
alive and more open, also for newbies. Also it good be a possibility to
make things more central in combination with linuxaudio.org.
Why not put a link on the linuxaudio.org site to the forum and
eventually change the name of the forum if the moderator can agree with
the suggestion? Or maybe it is possible to change the forum to
linuxaudio.org (I'm a noob on this area...).
I back that: a forum is nice in many cases, you can have pictures,
a powerful search-function etc.
There already is one: Google.
PLUS: the site in question is indeed a forum only so
it can serve a a
forum-module for the 2 other sites.
Forums suck. :-P
but of course no one is suggesting that those
who prefer mailing lists should stop using them.
The only way the two different ways of communicating work together is if
the two are bridged together, so that posts to one automatically show up
in the other. In the past, this has always led to massive amounts of
spam poisoning the email list unless some list/forum manager is working
full time at keeping it out. Many lists and forums have been killed by
such junk, just as their older brother (newsgroups) were killed before them.
Forums - bah!
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David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
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