[Asterisk-Users] Are there online forums instead of this

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:14:50PM -0500, Tim Bass wrote:
> 
> I use procmail and know very well how to manage email.  All asterisk mail
> goes to a folder,etc.
> 
> Your point..."because a few people don't understand how to manage e-mail" is
> nonsense and shows why this list should be moderated.

*BLINK*

He expresses an opinion, you disagree with it and therefore what he
says should be moderated out of existance? I'm sorry, but arguments
that on this list not every post is as nice as possible are just not
going to fly. This list is no worse than any other I'm on. This is the
real world and the list reflects that.

If you don't like what you read, ignore it. But the idea of moderation
scares me because I might miss something useful just because someone
else decided I shouldn't see it. I'll decide for myself
thank-you-very-much.

>From my point of view, web based forums can never compete for me
because:

1. The RTT to bring a new page in and render it takes at least a
second, usually more.
2. Displaying more than one message at a time is irritating because
then you have to scroll around and it can no longer track read/unread.

3. Finally, colours, pictures, odd fonts, etc slow down my reading
speed. I prefer everything in a fixed width font, white text, black
background, each message starting at exactly the same point on my
screen. Keyboard control only.

The combination means that I could only get through less than half as
many forum posts as mailing list posts in a given period. Time being
money completes the picture.
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Martijn van Oosterhout
Ecomtel Pty Ltd