[ale] ALE forum ?

[Richard Bronosky]

+1 for KISS
I do 99% of my ALE from my phone. Web forums really suck via phone.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 19:41 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Steve Brown <scbrown3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Boris Borisov <bugy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> >> No offense to anybody but why there is no forum for ALE group created yet?
>> >> For me personally will be the easy way to follow the threads. I'm kind of
>> >> tired trying to read email with multitude replies.
>> >
>> > You can also try the google group:
>> >
>> > http://groups.google.com/group/atlanta-linux-enthusiasts/topics
>> >
>>
>> I think that's read only.  But Boris if you are mostly reading it
>> would help you out.
>>
>> Or there is likely a way you could be allowed to post directly from
>> google groups.  Not sure.  (It says only the administrator can
>> currently.)
>
> No.  Then reply by sending E-Mail to the list.
>
> Quite frankly, I'm massively involved in a number of forums and
> collaborative sites.  Web forums suck, big time.  They consume massively
> more time that I can afford to process the messages I deal with here.
> Invariably too, groups that rely on web forums find participation drops
> percepitously before long compared with E-Mail forums.  You simply do
> NOT get the participation.  High volume forums do not thrive in that
> environment.  I participate in hundreds of E-Mail forums and maybe a few
> dozen web based forums.  The effort to keep up with the web based forums
> is way higher even for that fewer number and discourages participation.
> And it shows in the number of participants and the number of posts and
> the number of replies.  Web forums suck.  Big time suck.
>
> I would not participate in an ALE forum if it was not possible to do so
> purely from an E-Mail standpoint.  I can no afford the time to visit
> more than 100+ web sites a day to check their forums.  I can do that
> with E-Mail.
>
>> Greg
>
> Mike
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