[Freeswitch-users] Please end the torment

[Jason White]

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.