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

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

bass at silkroad.com wrote:

>Any decent on-line forum would be much better than these digium email lists.  The lists are
> poorly formatted,
>
They look fine in my mail client.

>there is no easy way to post code
>
Yes there is. Cut, paste, indent. Or if it's too big, put it up 
somewhere and paste in a hyperlink...

>You cannot neatly quote anyone,
>
Yes you can. Look, I quote you neatly!

> the search function in the archive is elementary at best,
>
site:<whatever_mailing_list_archive> my search terms

In google does wonders.

>there is no possibility for active users to moderate their area of interest,
>
Why should there be? If *you* don't like what I say, then *you* can 
killfile me. I don't see why *you*, or anyone else, should have the 
right to "moderate" (read: censor) what I have to say to others.

This kind of openness is the strength of mailing list and I admire 
digium for preserving it - even when there's posts against their 
self-interest (for example about Sangoma cards).

I don't want any of this potential policing. It's dreadful, it sucks, 
and it's contrary to the gentle "anarchist world of small despots" open 
source spirit.

>there is no private messaging,
>
Yes there is. It's called 'email'.

>the list goes on and on.
>  
>
That's right - The mailing list goes on.

>I highly and kindly suggest that Digium transition off these email list and into a good, commercial, on line forum, like vBulletin (www.vbulletin.com).   I just joined this list and am amazed at how much traffic there is, how poorly formatted the messages are, how so many different topics are lumped into one list, etc.
>  
>
Well it might be a good idea to split asterisk-users into different 
topics of interest... you know, like asterisk-zap, asterisk-sip, 
asterisk-iax might be an example of such a split. Now you have to find 
clever topics of interest...

>As someone who has administered the UNIX Forums for many years, and with over 28 thousand registered users, I have seen how great an on-line, forum-based community can become.
>
Yeah. Let's stick some phpbb and have smiley faces and HTML markup all 
over. With blinking images please - j00 n00b - j00r n|ck d0n7 bl|nk!

>A GOOD ON-LINE FORUM IS TO EMAIL LISTS WHAT THE WORLD WIDE WEB WAS TO GOPHER.
>
Incidentally, gopher was really good and unlike the web, it could _not_ 
go wrong. There's just /so many/ crappy sites out there (in fact most of 
them suck) and even /more/ crappy web forums, it's unbelievable.

Anyway I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to have both a mailing 
list and a web forum...

>In other words, Digium is only hurting this community by not transitioning these lists to a good on-line community building software product.
>  
>
I beg to differ...

-- 
Ykoz Un Max - La VoIP en pré-payé!
Essayez gratuitement - 5 crédits offerts.
---> http://ykoz.net/voip/max <---