Arthur wrote:
  

  david wrote:
    

Hartmut Noack wrote:
  
      

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schoappied schrieb:
    
        

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,
    
        

How cute! Can we have a picture of you up there, too? ;-)
  
      

No comment.
    

C'mon, I've heard you're a 10! ;-)

  

a powerful search-function etc.
    
        

There already is one: Google.
  
      

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.

  

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
  
      

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.

  

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!