Trying to gauge usage of a possible AlphaLinux.org Forum

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"Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Tobias Klausmann <klausman at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> (apologies for incoherent rambling, I have a nasty case of flu and
>> am not at my best, intelligence-wise)
>>
>> I don'treally like forums. Their overhead for posting/reading and
>> the usually abysmal user interface keep me from wanting to use
>> them. That said, if they're indexable properly, you can search
>> using google. Still wouldn't want to write or regularly read
>> there.
>>
>> As for mailing lists: love 'em if they have a properly indexed
>> archive. This mailing list here, however, has a disadvantage: its
>> domain name. I can imagine people not subscribing because it is
>> Fedora/RHEL only.
>>
>> c.o.l.a has a disadvantage: some people don't even know News and
>> quite of the geeks I know don't like News because they think it's
>> all flames and spam (and let's face it: there *are* groups which
>> fit that description).
>>
>> That'show I see it.
>
> So it looks like most people who use mailing lists would rather use
> existing mailing lists than forums. Surprise. :)
>
> I wonder how many people I'm not reaching?
>
> Maybe the thing to do is to put more emphasis on comp.os.linux.alpha?
> It can be read as a mailing list and also as a forum (through Google
> Groups). How would this be?

If that keeps the web aficionados happy, fine by me as long it doesn't
result in a sudden influx of badly formatted (top-posts, html, etc)
messages.

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