[K12OSN] Opinions on a Forum

[Meelis]

> Consider digest mode. Quickly scan the topics you want to read and chuck
> the rest. There are usually 10-15 posts per digest that I receive unless
> it's a slow day.
>

Hmm ... I'll give it a try. Thanks :)

> I vote elist and wiki. Forums are great for hobbyists but a lot of us
> have schools to admin and need the collective brainpower when disaster
> strikes. I host a couple of forums, I'm a forum kind of guy, which are
> great but for this task, I must say, the list works better.
>

It seems that actually both ... forums and lists have their own pros and 
cons. It only depends on the way how people are used to communicate. A big % 
of users in this list are used to this kind of system and it makes a moving 
to forums a bit hard. I have nothing against this mailing list beacause even 
if there will be no forum, community still works and people help each other 
:) This is what actually matters ;)


> A wiki would better organize our collective experience than having it
> spread about 10 different threads and the poor newbie hamstrung because
> they didn't enter a good search string. For example, if they search
> audio, to get audio going, every thread that someone posted a portion of
> their lts.conf would show up, too, even if those topics were about
> screen resolutions.
>

Wiki is a good solution if there is a group of people ready to repair 
mistakes that may occur in articles. A lot of writing and reading :) but the 
result might be more than satisfying if tutorials and tricks will be added 
:)

Meelis