Re: Trying to gauge usage of a possible AlphaLinux.org Forum

[Marco Benton <marco xssnet com>]

Måns Rullgård wrote:
> "Matt Turner" <mattst88 gmail com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Tobias Klausmann <klausman 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.

Allowing l-users from Google Groups would do just that!

top-posting, HTML, etc and total n00b questions.

But i do prefer newsgroups tho.  And an occasional flame war.  ;-)