[Freeswitch-users] Please end the torment

[mszlazak at aol.com]

 Again, if your target market prefers lists, then go with list. If they prefer forums then it's forums. The point is that it's not about what a few like, it's about the mob but the right mob.


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Dan <davidwdan at gmail.com>
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 5:26 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Please end the torment









Web forums are like the wild west of the internet.? They offer nothing that a mailing list and good wiki can't handle.

Just
go take a look at the trixbox forums. The last thing you want it for
someone that is looking into freeswitch for the first time, to come
across something like this (The Beginning of the End for CE), 1 click off the front page.? I'd really hate to see FS go down this Mob Rule path.






On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:



mszlazak at aol.com <mszlazak at aol.com> wrote:

> If as you say "people prefer forums" then that's the nature of the target

> market and controlling markets can be very difficult. So you go with the

> market to succeed.




Most free software/open-source people I've encountered prefer mailing lists

and don't like being forced to use a Web interface instead (unless it's the

Web interface of their preferred Web mail provider, in which case they're not

being compelled to use it).



For some of us, a Web forum is hard and inconvenient to use, because it

substitutes the forum operator's user interface for that of the user's

preferred mail client. I have reasons for choosing the mail client that I use,

and if I had to work via somebody else's Web interface instead it would

probably result in my not participating at all.



This list can also be accessed via the Web and over NNTP at gmane.org.



For NNTP enthusiasts, the news group is mane.comp.telephony.freeswitch.user -

just connect your news reader to news.gmane.org.



You can also post from the newsgroup; the first time you do so, an automated

e-mail message will arrive in your inbox requesting confirmation, for spam

prevention purposes.



I don't know whether it is possible to post from the gmane.org Web site. They

use Xapian as their search tool, which, in my experience, usually places the

most relevant posts near the top of the search results.









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