[Asterisk-Users] Google newsgroup or Forum setup.

[Troy Settle]

Actually, top posting, and yes, people do that.

Why do they do that?  Quite possibly because they, like myself, hate
having to scroll through pages and pages of quotes to get to the reply,
which isn't always clear where it might start.

With top posting, you know the reply starts at the top, and stops at the
signature and/or citation.

PS, this is /way/ off topic for this thread and this mailing list, and
is best dropped.  In fact, I feel really bad about hitting the send
buttin in about 2 seconds...

--
  Troy Settle
  Pulaski Networks
  http://www.psknet.com
  540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638
  Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Tilghman Lesher
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:37 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Google newsgroup or Forum setup.
> 
> 
> 
> Top-quoting.  Argh.
> 
> On Monday 29 September 2003 12:16 pm, Keith O'Brien wrote:
> > I'll offer one better.   Why don't we mirror all of the maillist
> > posts to a forum.  That way both parties are happy.  Those that
> > want a forum can use a forum interface and still post to the
> > maillist and those that like the maillist can stay as is.
> 
> Because the point was that forums, while their proponents feel is
> the next best thing since sliced bread, don't actually get very much
> traffic.  There's far too many projects out there (Sourceforge,
> anyone?) which have died due to the dearth of people checking the
> forum for posts.
> 
> Note that the mailing list is archived in several different places,
> and everything is indexed by Google.  If the one provider hosting a
> forum has a catastrophic failure, there isn't much in the way of
> backups.
> 
> -Tilghman
> 
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