[Freeswitch-users] Please end the torment

[mszlazak at aol.com]

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. The "build it and they will come" attitude virtually never works well.



-----Original Message-----
From: Kristian Kielhofner <kristian.kielhofner at gmail.com>
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Please end the torment








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. ;)

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Gregory Boehnlein <damin at nacs.net> wrote:
> You guys should setup 1-900-FREESWITCH w/ a $1 / minute charge.. :)
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