[ic] Re: FORUM - instead of Mailing List

[William Borrelli]

I have to agree with the Forums. I have always found it much easier
to plow my through forums (Vbulletin, UBB, PHPBB styles) than trying
to serach through emails. Granted you can't take them with you on the
laptop, but nowadays, you can reach them anywhere you can get an
internet connection. And if you are taking your laptop with you for
work, 9 times outta 10, you will have some sort of internet
connection.

I am still having problems getting Interchange setup with MySQL, and
could not find anything searching through the past emails. A forum
topic specifically for Database setups would be real handy right
about now.

And then like Jason Kohles was all like:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:25:38PM +0800, ako pia wrote:
>>
>> LOTS-O-EMAIL
>> With the Forum, you wouldn't have ANY email. Plus, the forum is
>> much more organized.
>>
> I think you are missing the point.  I WANT it as email, the forum
> is not as organized as my email is, I can't filter the forum, and
> I can't take the forum with me on my laptop.
>
>> TECHNICAL QUESTIONS
>> The technical questions I think should really be posted at the
>> forum. It's so much easier to find the replies and follow the
>> lines of reasoning. Plus, the answers can be added to a
>> knowledge base or FAQ really easily and searched very quickly.
>>
> I completely disagree, with email I can tag a thread to be
> watched, and I can search all the email I've ever received in a
> matter of seconds.  As I've said before, if your mail client
> can't follow threads then you need a new mail client, you don't
> need to try and replace the whole system to deal with the
> inadequacies of your own software choices.
>
>> ORGANIZATION
>> The bottom line is that once you've tried a good forum system,
>> everything else pales by comparison. It's the level of
>> organization that is the key. Everything all at one location in
>> an orderly manner. There's just no substitute that I am aware
>> of.
>>
> That's your opinion, and one I do not share for the reasons I've
> covered above, and many others, not the least of which is that a
> decent mail client does a much better job of organization by
> letting the reader, rather than the site administrator, determine
> how that information should be organized.
>
>> I certainly am not trying to step on anybody's toes, but the
>> forum scripts are so good these days that you'll really like
>> them once you try them. The old types of forums (which are still
>> used by some folks) are almost as frustrating as mailing lists,
>> but go over to Interchangeville.com, register, and then throw in
>> a question or two, or respond to some, and you'll start to get
>> used to it. It's great.
>>
> I did try it, for one thing postnuke generates some really
> hideous non-compliant HTML that makes many of the threads
> unreadable in Mozilla.  At the time I tried it there were about
> 60 messages in the forum, and it took nearly 40 minutes to read
> them all with all of the navigation required to go through the
> forum format.  Reading 60 messages in email generally takes me
> less than 5 minutes, and when I respond I can use a decent editor
> rather than an html textarea.
>
>> Also, the fact that Anton and his folks are building a KB is
>> super news. Imagine, all kinds of good stuff in a single
>> location, all nicely organized, edited, etc. If this gets put
>> together right, it's gonna be great!
>>
> We already have all kinds of good stuff in a single location,
> nicely organized and edited at http://interchange.redhat.com/.
>
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