Taming the mailing lists?

Mike Hogsett michael.hogsett at sri.com
Fri Apr 30 21:02:23 UTC 2004


From: "M. Fioretti" <m.fioretti at inwind.it>
Subject: Re: Taming the mailing lists?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:01:48 +0200

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 21:42:12 PM +0100, Steve Searle
> (steve at stevesearle.com) wrote:
> > Around 09:20pm on Friday, April 30, 2004 (UK time), Mikha ben Avraham scrawled:
> > 
> > > Furthermore, forums are found easier than mailing lists. "linux help" in 
> > > google will bring up more forums than mailing list archives.
> > 
> > In my opinion, Forums tend to have lots of questions but far fewer
> > answers. 
> 
> Precisely my point. It is easier and faster, for casual users, to
> enter stuff once in a web form, but it is much more time consuming for
> experts to use that channel.


I am sorry, but can this thread die?  Although it is an issue that
many mailing list subscribers are concerned with I personally feel
that the fedora-list traffic is best spent discussing issues directly
related to the Fedora product itself, rather than its mailing list.

 - Mike Hogsett

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