Trying to gauge usage of a possible AlphaLinux.org Forum

[Matt Turner]

Hi,

So it looks like most people who use mailing lists would rather use
existing mailing lists than forums. Surprise. :)

I wonder how many people I'm not reaching?

Maybe the thing to do is to put more emphasis on comp.os.linux.alpha?
It can be read as a mailing list and also as a forum (through Google
Groups). How would this be?

Thanks,

Matt

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Tobias Klausmann <klausman at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> (apologies for incoherent rambling, I have a nasty case of flu and
> am not at my best, intelligence-wise)
>
> I don'treally like forums. Their overhead for posting/reading and
> the usually abysmal user interface keep me from wanting to use
> them. That said, if they're indexable properly, you can search
> using google. Still wouldn't want to write or regularly read
> there.
>
> As for mailing lists: love 'em if they have a properly indexed
> archive. This mailing list here, however, has a disadvantage: its
> domain name. I can imagine people not subscribing because it is
> Fedora/RHEL only.
>
> c.o.l.a has a disadvantage: some people don't even know News and
> quite of the geeks I know don't like News because they think it's
> all flames and spam (and let's face it: there *are* groups which
> fit that description).
>
> That'show I see it.
>
> Regards, Tobias
>
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