Trying to gauge usage of a possible AlphaLinux.org Forum

[Marco Benton]

Måns Rullgård wrote:
> "Matt Turner" <mattst88 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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.
>> 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?
> 
> If that keeps the web aficionados happy, fine by me as long it doesn't
> result in a sudden influx of badly formatted (top-posts, html, etc)
> messages.
> 

Allowing l-users from Google Groups would do just that!

top-posting, HTML, etc and total n00b questions.

But i do prefer newsgroups tho.  And an occasional flame war.  ;-)