[ale] New Mailing List initiatives for ALE

[Jeff Lightner]

Exactly.  I was and am a member of the Dutchworks HP-UX mailing list for
years.  HP setup ITRC forums rather than a mailing list.  I seldom visit
that forum even though it appears that most people do use the ITRC
instead of the mailing list.  Part of that may be due to the fact that
the forum has a rating systems so some of the more technical people like
showing up at the different ranking levels there.

Having said that I do fairly frequently visit linuxquestions.org forums.
Of course if this list had that volume of posts it would have to be
forums or we'd all turn it off.  My preference for this list is its
local nature.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ben
To: ale at ale.org
Coleman
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 1:28 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] New Mailing List initiatives for ALE

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Jerald Sheets wrote:
> I mean, if this were a desired direction, a "web 2.0" style forums  
> would do this much better I'd think, but the forum idea (IMO, correct

> me if I'm wrong) doesn't fit us very well.

I personally find web-based forums a royal pain, and a lot less useful
than
mailing lists or newsgroups.  I can consolidate all of the mailing lists
or
newsgroups I read into one program, and thus get easy reminders of when
there
is traffic on them.  With Web-based forums I have to remember to visit
each
different forum, which generally means that I use them much less often.
Not
to mention that each one has a different interface.

> --Jms

Heh.  As an old Babylon-5 fan, this definitely made me look twice.

Ben
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