Fedoraforum.org is now official?

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:16 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:07 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On Apr 5, 2005 8:15 PM, Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
> > > When you find one who is more successful at handling very-high-volume
> > > traffic and contributing meaningfully to it with fora rather than
> > > mailing lists, let me know... I'd like to meet that person, for I've
> > > never found someone like that.
> > > 
> > You sound like you need gmail. Should I send you an invite?
> 
> Good Lord, no. Thanks for your good intentions, but I can see nothing
> that Gmail would offer me that my Linux-based notebook (and my 60GB
> email account) don't already give me, and indeed it would offer me a
> whole lot less.
> 
> But you *have* missed the point. I'm on the run right now and don't have
> time to explain, but in brief: I think fora...
> 
> - are slower to use
> - are slower to browse
> - are slower to respond
> - don't let me work offline (as I am doing now, for instance)
> - don't let me filter/search/manage massive amounts of traffic
> - don't let me store my own archives and copies
> - waste massive amounts of bandwidth
> - require a mouse...
> - ...and a lot of patience for EACH page to load after EACH click
> - and much, much more
> 
> As someone who answers more questions than I ask, and as someone who
> reads a large part of the 400 messages I get per day, and as someone who
> has been doing this (Usenet, mailing lists, fora) for almost as long as
> they've all been around, I can categorically tell you that a forum is
> much less functional for experts.
> 
> And we're going to be less valuable as a community if we have fewer
> people answering fewer questions, aren't we?
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I have little interest in forums myself but I certainly wish for those
who find forums a more comfortable fit, a happy and rewarding
experience.

Personally, I haven't a clue what you are so worked up about.

Craig