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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
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 2, 2023 16:40<br>
<b>To:</b> FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Retiring the FreeSWITCH Mailing list</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Thursday 02 February 2023 at 14:51:19, Brandon Armstead wrote:<br>
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> +1 in agreement with Alex.<br>
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I don't know how many +1s you've had so far, but this is another one.<br>
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I think Alex has expressed extremely well why forums are not as effective as <br>
lists.<br>
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I would also simply add that I am on quite a number of mailing lists, and it's <br>
very convenient to deal with them all in one email client. If each one were <br>
replaced by a forum, I would need multiple logged-in windows in a browser, and <br>
have to actively switch back and forth between them to see if there were new <br>
messages. This is the biggest thing for me which makes forums highly <br>
unproductive.<br>
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Antony.<br>
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> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:28 AM Alex Balashov wrote:<br>
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> > I do understand that maintaining a mailing list, and all the issues that<br>
> > come with it, is a thankless chore. I run several myself and can relate<br>
> > to the frustration.<br>
> > <br>
> > However, from my perspective, it is by far the most effective way to<br>
> > engage the broadest swath of users, for reasons already outlined by<br>
> > others. Only a small, hardcore group of forum enthusiasts who<br>
> > particularly like that medium will participate in forums; average people<br>
> > won't bother to keep up with the forum because it requires work.<br>
> > <br>
> > The net effect is that people only come to ask a specific question, the<br>
> > number of experts usefully answering questions is reduced, and that users<br>
> > don't stay broadly abreast of trends and project info which would<br>
> > otherwise smile out in some way from their inbox.<br>
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- thanks to ECB for bringing this to my attention<br>
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Please reply to the list;<br>
please *don't* CC me.<br>
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