[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Users Mailing List Traffic

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:51, John Novack wrote:
> In fact, since the subject keeps coming up, perhaps there really is an
> issue that needs to be addressed??

It has been addressed.  There are a host of forum sites specific to Asterisk, 
and even more (such as tek-tips) which include Asterisk forums.  Several have 
been mentioned in this very thread.  Digium even has their own and advertise 
it on their website.

It's not for lack of availability of forums or people willing to run forums 
that the mailing lists prevail.  The fact that people keep coming back here 
tells me that these mailing lists are the correct answer, and it's only the 
loud minority that bitch and whine about it, ultimately leaving for one of 
the forum sites, only to silently return weeks/months later.

The reason it keeps coming up is not because forums are a better medium, but 
because we are a rapidly growing community, and the newcomers come, wonder 
why we're not using a forum and the entire subject gets re-hashed for another 
time.

The short of it is that there are alternatives, and nobody's chaining you to 
the lists.  For all their popularity, the forum simply seems to be lacking in 
the ability to be an effective communication medium when compared to the 
venerable old mailing list.  The flash and glitz of the forum attracts, but 
for some reason everyone ends up here.  Can you explain why, if forums are so 
much better?

-A.