Taming the mailing lists?

[Mikha ben Avraham]

Elliot Lee wrote:

>If you feel that the Fedora mailing lists are becoming a little
>unmanageable or are not as valuable as they could be, would you take the
>time to e-mail me with your thoughts on the problem? (private e-mail is
>fine) If you think that there's no problem at all, hearing that opinion 
>would be useful too!
>
>Thanks in advance,
>-- Elliot
>I keep committing atrocities in an attempt to learn from my mistakes.
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Personally, I prefer forums to mailing lists. Forums give the ability to 
seperate different categories of problems and discussion.

The major advantage I see for a forum compared to a mailing list is that 
a forum is more of a "browsing" medium, and mailing list just stuff 
everything down your throat. I want to check what sort of software 
problems people have, but to do so with a mailing list is intimidating 
(when I didn't check my email for a few days and found over a thousand 
emails, I certainly didn't read them all).
 
Right now, I go to fedoraforum.org for help, but it doesn't have nearly 
the support base these mailing lists have. A combination of the mailing 
list membership with a forum would be nervana and would solve what I 
believe to be the "taming" problem.