[Asterisk-Users] Mailing list growth

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

> Would a Forum/Bulletin Board type interface be useful? If there is no
> such forum yet, I can set on up.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus H Christ on a Stick, NO!

Forums with no threading, no useful search, blasted animated emoticons and 
needless graphics and cutesy little doo-dads are the bane of the Internet.  
I wish that PHPBB style interfaces would drop off the face of the planet, 
and that their inventors were drawn and quartered.

Wikis are bad enough; let's not dumb-ify the good technical discussion here 
by trying to stuff it into some cutesy interface so Grandma isn't put off 
by the sheer volume of text.

Every single attempt I've seen at unifying mailing lists and forums has 
failed.  You end up with all the tech gurus on the list and all the people 
needing help on the forums.  The gurus are happy because hardly anyone bugs 
them, but the people who need help are put off because nobody beyond a mild 
technical bent is helping them.

Please let's not even visit the idea of web-based forums.  Blech.  What a 
nasty flavour!

Regards,
Andrew