[Asterisk-Users] Google newsgroup or Forum setup.

[costas]

See my Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:30:23 -0400 email (Sorry emails have no message #s to refer to :) )

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From: "Keith O'Brien" <keith at voipreviews.com>
Reply-To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Date:  Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:25:30 -0400

>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.
>
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>
>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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