[Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list

[Brian West]

It does let you set it up to be just like a mailing list, I understand
everyone's aversion to change, It's going to happen, and it will allow
everyone to receive help faster.

/b



On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 1:53 AM Shaun Stokes <shaun at syskonfig.pl> wrote:

> Perhaps the new forum could function in a similar way to the mailing list?
> If you could receive responses via email and respond via email, then it
> would be the best of both worlds. I know most ticketing systems these days
> provide this functionality, the same is possible on a forum.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* FreeSWITCH-users <freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org>
> on behalf of Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2023 16:40
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list
>
> On Thursday 02 February 2023 at 14:51:19, Brandon Armstead wrote:
>
> > +1 in agreement with Alex.
>
> I don't know how many +1s you've had so far, but this is another one.
>
> I think Alex has expressed extremely well why forums are not as effective
> as
> lists.
>
> I would also simply add that I am on quite a number of mailing lists, and
> it's
> very convenient to deal with them all in one email client.  If each one
> were
> replaced by a forum, I would need multiple logged-in windows in a browser,
> and
> have to actively switch back and forth between them to see if there were
> new
> messages.  This is the biggest thing for me which makes forums highly
> unproductive.
>
>
> Antony.
>
> > On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:28 AM Alex Balashov wrote:
> >
> > > I do understand that maintaining a mailing list, and all the issues
> that
> > > come with it, is a thankless chore. I run several myself and can relate
> > > to the frustration.
> > >
> > > However, from my perspective, it is by far the most effective way to
> > > engage the broadest swath of users, for reasons already outlined by
> > > others. Only a small, hardcore group of forum enthusiasts who
> > > particularly like that medium will participate in forums; average
> people
> > > won't bother to keep up with the forum because it requires work.
> > >
> > > The net effect is that people only come to ask a specific question, the
> > > number of experts usefully answering questions is reduced, and that
> users
> > > don't stay broadly abreast of trends and project info which would
> > > otherwise smile out in some way from their inbox.
>
> --
> #define SIX 1+5
> #define NINE 8+1
>
> int main() {
>     printf("%d\n", SIX * NINE);
> }
>         - thanks to ECB for bringing this to my attention
>
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