I agree, but after 2 months iregistered I must to confess that I really like this kind of anarchy. It helps newbies to go quickly in the mood, elite to work their human feels and sometimes fresh energy and ideas can also help the old elite to push some intensity... Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Langfeld To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH Mailing List - Why not a forum? There may be a forum, but such a thing cannot be expected to succeed if there's competition with an already established list. Such a thing would have to replace the mailing list to succeed. I believe this would help the FreeSWITCH effort amongst newer users and lead to much faster growth. The barrier to entry of a mailing list is a tad too high for some since it presents an impression, justified or not, that the list is where the elite hang out and is off-limits for newbies, whereas with a tidier forum setup that would allow for a "Newbies Corner" might avoid this. Mailing lists are showing their age these days - as demonstrated by the difficulty in responding to this on digest mode - I have to strip away every other thread first. I'm convinced that a full shift to newer, better organised and more friendly technology would only be a good thing for the FreeSWITCH project. Does anyone agree, or am I out on my own on this one? Regards, Ben Langfeld Wave > Email On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:11 AM, <freeswitch-users-request@lists.freeswitch.org> wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael S Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> To: "freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org" <freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:54:15 -0700 Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH Mailing List - Why not a forum? There *IS* a forum. A volunteer set it up a few years ago and promised to maintain it. The fact that you can't find it is proof positive that a forum just isn't the best choice for this particular online community. I'd say the nabble site is your best option. -MC Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2010, at 4:51 AM, William Suffill <william.suffill@gmail.com> wrote: It's been brought up before. I don't recall exactly all the +/- discussed but there are some alternatives for the user depending on their preference. Digest can get a bit annoying in high volume. The list is archived in various places (Gmane.org,nabble.com) Nabble does provide a forum style interface to the current list if you rather follow it that way. http://n2.nabble.com/freeswitch-users-f2379917.html "This forum is an archive for the mailing list: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org (more options) Messages posted here will be sent to this mailing list." -- W _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org