[Freeswitch-users] Please end the torment

[Michael Jerris]

On Mar 5, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> A bunch of telephony geeks and a 1900 number - what could go wrong?
>
> Anyways, I too don't understand why people prefer forums.
>
> I follow dozens of mailling lists and a half a dozen e-mail addresses
> without ever leaving my mail client.  My mail client happens to be
> gmail, btw:
>
> - Much more customization, filtering, etc possible than any "web  
> forum"
> - "Local" copies of all messages
> - Search is awesome, ever hear of Google? ;)
>
>  Web forums are good when you have to serve ads to people to get
> paid.  Other than that they are certainly not the ideal tool for the
> job.
>
>  Besides (and don't take this as an insult) - have you ever compared
> the web forums to the mailing lists for projects that offer both?  Say
> what you want to say about mailing lists and IRC but the reality
> (usually) is the l33tz all hang out here and web forums (almost
> always) end up with the same groups of n00bz circling around and
> around trying to figure out how to accomplish even the most basic of
> tasks.
>
>  Obviously that can go both ways but as a rule of thumb the people
> that are usually in a position to help others typically prefer mailing
> lists (probably for some of the reasons I cited above).  Or maybe they
> are just old gray hairs too stuck in their ways.  I don't know. ;)


I previously thought the same about the insiders always preferring  
mailing lists but I have a friend who is a core member of the cacti  
developers and they apparently prefer the forums to the lists, but  
have both.  Food for thought at least.

MIke