Mailing lists are very searchable in the real world. Try Googling something list "freeswitch mailing list web forum", and you can quickly go through some of the occasions this issue was raised before. Mailing lists seldom turn into a war zone. News groups often do. Web forums only avoid being a war zone with *aggressive* policing. They are usually slow and clumsy to navigate through, too. Why waste the effort? Mailing lists sucks, but the alternatives available today are still worse. Steve On 06/07/2012 11:38 PM, Sean Devoy wrote:
WTF was that supposed to mean?
Nail meet Screw! Hammer meet Screw Gun.
Better things come along as we progress. Most of us are in fact no longer living in caves even though they provide great protection from tornados.
I was simply asking for a consensus on an idea. I have an earlier post asking if there was software or a website that allowed this type of interface. No responses to that question.
Thank you Timothy Bolton for the link to nabble, I had never heard of it. It's not a great interface, but far more usable than dozens of unsearchable email attachments from the "batched in daily digest".
I see peoples point about email accessibility off line. I guess I have lived where we have broadband, smart phone and abundant free wifi for so long I did not consider being off the net. That is certainly a valid point. I must say it is counterintuitive for a "forum" on Internet Telephony to be concerned about users without Internet Access.
I withdraw my offer an apologize for bringing up the idea.
Back to the caves! :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Brian West [mailto:brian@freeswitch.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:48 PM To: FreeSWITCH Users Help Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] How about a USER FORUM and kill off the mail list?
Hammer, meet Nail!
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On Jun 6, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Patrick Lists <freeswitch-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
Since it has been a while I guess it was inevitable that someone would come around with the forum idea again. Have you searched the mailing list archives and read the previous discussion on this subject? It did not work for the Asterisk community and I doubt it would work for this community. If you want forum style, use nabble or gmane.
Regards, Patrick
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