[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Users Mailing List Traffic

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Derek Whitten wrote:
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>>> Whether or not a forum is a better idea isn't really depending on the
>>> subject matter IMHO. Its success or failure depends on what the
>>> prospective participants like better. I personally cannot stand
>>> forums. That's a place where I have to expend energy to go there and
>>> manually click through stuff. If I remember to go there and say up to
>>> date, that is. Email comes to me, and is sorted suitably on the server
>>> side so there is no clutter. Deleting messages I don't care about is
>>> much easier than clicking myself through some thread on a forum.
>> You never heard of a forum that sends new posts to you via email?
>>
>> I prefer forums where I can subscribe to the forum topics that interest
>> me, and see only posts for those topics - yes, in my email.
>>
>> Then each message from the forum should have links to the CENTRALIZED
>> FAQs (I understand there are a lot of different forums/faq's out there).
>>
>> That said, I seem to be in the minority in preferring forums for supprt
>> related things like this - especially high volume stuff - so I'll just
>> pipe down now...
>>
>> :)
>>
> 
> can't forget about forum RSS feeds too.. then you can selectively pick
> which messages you want to view..

Too bad you didn't include the word "forum" in the subject.

It's called a .procmailrc:

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