[Asterisk-Users] Google newsgroup or Forum setup.

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 07:53, costas wrote:
> See my Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:30:23 -0400 email (Sorry emails have no
> message #s to refer to :) )

This is why top posting bites. What the hell are you talking about?

> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >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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