[Asterisk-Users] Google newsgroup or Forum setup.

[Keith O'Brien]

I think that you missed my point.  I am not proposing to establish a forum
and abolish the maillist.  

The forum would get traffic as all posts sent to the maillist would
automatically post to the forum.  Those that want to answer using the forum
can do so and it would forward to the list.   

If the forum fails, the maillist is running in parallel and would still be
active so we would be back where we are today.   While the newsgroup option
is an option, I'd agree this isn't the best avenue due to spam abuse.

I realize that your needs may not require a forum, which is fine.  And for
those like you things would proceed as is without changes.  For those that
have other needs would have another option.

Keith

-----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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