[Asterisk-Users] s/asterisk mailinglists/asterisk forum/g ?

[Joe Phillips]

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 10:06, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> now that the lists are at 2-300 email messages a day, perhaps it's time
> to move it to a web forum instead? This can give us lots of categories
> (all the apps and channels etc etc), an easily searchable thing such as
> phpbb and it'll be a lot easier to find the actual info.

While I myself am feeling a little overwhelmed by the mail traffic too,
I don't like the idea of forums.  Personally, I have yet to see a forum
that I consider useful.  All too often forums are slow, difficult to
search and waste too much time throughout the day polling for new posts.

I think a decent mail list archive with searching capabilities and
sortable by date/thread/author should be fine.  If the traffic is too
much for you then unsubscribe and scan the archives from time to time.

I'm involved with a few organizations that spent considerable time,
effort and $$ setting up and managing forums only to find they are
consistently under-utilized.

I vote against forums.

-joe
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