Taming the mailing lists?

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 16:50:20 PM -0500, Mikha ben Avraham (mikhame at sbcglobal.net) wrote:
> Steve Searle wrote:
> >
> >In my opinion, Forums tend to have lots of questions but far fewer
> >answers.  When googling for the answer to a problem, I usually find it
> >in news groups or mailing list archives, sometimes on individual web
> >pages and rarely in forums.
> >

I swear this is my last message in this thread. Said this:

> A good reason for the people who know the answers and only use
> mailing lists to use forums as well.

you have missed again the point, which is to save time. Communication
must be fast and effective. If the majority of people who know the
answers (ie have managed to become expert) also prefer mailing lists
it is quite likely that the two things are related.


Ciao,
Marco Fioretti

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