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

[Francesco Peeters]

On Thu, March 31, 2005 21:03, bass at silkroad.com said:
>
> There are many on-line forums related to asterisk, including
> www.asteriskforum.com ... the problems is that as long as Digium supports
> this type of "dinosaur era" list, the other communties will not grow.
>
> The responsbility is Digium and if they truly care about building this
> community, they should endorse one of the forums, or set up their own, and
> turn this list off.
>
> There is no need to set up another one, as their are already many people
> who have done that.  You can set up 100 of these, but if Digium does not
> support it by using it, then there is is a problem
>
> I don't believe that Digium is as narrow minded as suggested by the poster
> below.
>
>
>>
>> This subject has come up about every two months for the past year
>> or more, and the exact same answers still apply. If you want a forum,
>> go set it up; it ain't going to happen at digium.
>>
>> Others have already set up forums; go find them and use those.
>><SNIP>

This is a discussion I see popping up every other month or so on virtually
every mailinglist I am on... Some people prefer web forums, but in the end
- at least on the lists I am on - a vast (often mostly silent <G>)
majority prefer mailinglists...

- It's much easier to just leech (silent majority anyone? ;-) ) on
mailinglists, and absorb information.
- Mail can be read anywhere, with or without web access
- Mail reading is usually faster and easier than forum topics
- Mail takes less bandwidth (data plans, etc.)
etc.

So besides disadvantages, there are also advantages to mailinglists, which
for many take precedence over the 'advantages' of webforums.

I do not claim/pretend to speak for everybody on this list, but I *do*
think that others that promote web forums should not do so either...

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Francesco Peeters
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