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

[Bruno Hertz]

Martijn van Oosterhout <martijn at ecomtel.com.au> writes:

>
> Ok, basic use case. I today go to a forum and read all the messages.
> Next day I come along, how do I get a list of all the messages I havn't
> read in thread order in such a way that if I decide to go somewhere
> in the meantime, it knows what I've read and what I havn't.
>
> I also monitor several other projects all on mailing lists. With one
> mail box I can monitor six projects in one interface. I don't touch the
> mouse the whole time. I can whizz through a message every few seconds
> because every one is in the same font, same colour, same spacing (HTML
> all disabled). No forum is ever going to compete with that sorry.

This really is a killer argument, and I wholeheartedly agree with that.
One point comes to mind though, which has been troubling people here
for some time and where web forums, as much as i dislike them, could
actually be of use, i.e. partitioning.

As of now, all kinds of stuff is thrown into this list, mostly * related
but not always, from whatever cards over sipura products and manager api
to softphone setup and whatever. Now, even if mailing lists were set up
for particular topics, I think experience tells us that quite a few users
would come here anyway, and people would have a tough time educating them.
That's I think the main reason no serious effort is taken in that direction.

On the other hand imagine a forum with subtopics like sipura, softphones,
zap or whatever. Wouldn't that maybe help to put some load off at least
the casual reader and poster seeking or giving advice for topics he/she
specialized in, and maybe even the more active participants? Just a
thought, and not a bad one imho.

Regards, Bruno.