Web forums are like the wild west of the internet. They offer nothing that a mailing list and good wiki can't handle.<br><br>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 <a href="http://trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/begining-end-ce">(The Beginning of the End for CE</a>), 1 click off the front page. I'd really hate to see FS go down this Mob Rule path.<br>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Jason White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@jasonjgw.net">jason@jasonjgw.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><a href="mailto:mszlazak@aol.com">mszlazak@aol.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mszlazak@aol.com">mszlazak@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If as you say "people prefer forums" then that's the nature of the target<br>
> market and controlling markets can be very difficult. So you go with the<br>
> market to succeed.<br>
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</div>Most free software/open-source people I've encountered prefer mailing lists<br>
and don't like being forced to use a Web interface instead (unless it's the<br>
Web interface of their preferred Web mail provider, in which case they're not<br>
being compelled to use it).<br>
<br>
For some of us, a Web forum is hard and inconvenient to use, because it<br>
substitutes the forum operator's user interface for that of the user's<br>
preferred mail client. I have reasons for choosing the mail client that I use,<br>
and if I had to work via somebody else's Web interface instead it would<br>
probably result in my not participating at all.<br>
<br>
This list can also be accessed via the Web and over NNTP at <a href="http://gmane.org" target="_blank">gmane.org</a>.<br>
<br>
For NNTP enthusiasts, the news group is mane.comp.telephony.freeswitch.user -<br>
just connect your news reader to <a href="http://news.gmane.org" target="_blank">news.gmane.org</a>.<br>
<br>
You can also post from the newsgroup; the first time you do so, an automated<br>
e-mail message will arrive in your inbox requesting confirmation, for spam<br>
prevention purposes.<br>
<br>
I don't know whether it is possible to post from the <a href="http://gmane.org" target="_blank">gmane.org</a> Web site. They<br>
use Xapian as their search tool, which, in my experience, usually places the<br>
most relevant posts near the top of the search results.<br>
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