Taming the mailing lists?

[William Hooper]

Mikha ben Avraham said:

> Personally, I prefer forums to mailing lists.

OK.  Many people (myself included) don't.

> Forums give the ability to
> seperate different categories of problems and discussion.

Different mailing lists?  I prefer bigger categories, that way you don't
get so many off-topic posts because a person couldn't decide where to put
it.

> The major advantage I see for a forum compared to a mailing list is that
> a forum is more of a "browsing" medium,

That's why the archives are on the web.

[snip]
> Right now, I go to fedoraforum.org for help, but it doesn't have nearly
> the support base these mailing lists have.

See the first point.

> A combination of the mailing
> list membership with a forum would be nervana and would solve what I
> believe to be the "taming" problem.

Won't happen because of people like me that won't use a forum.  Given the
choice of a forum or nothing I generally use nothing.

-- 
William Hooper