Taming the mailing lists?

[Mikha ben Avraham]

Steve Searle wrote:

>Around 09:20pm on Friday, April 30, 2004 (UK time), Mikha ben Avraham scrawled:
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>>Furthermore, forums are found easier than mailing lists. "linux help" in 
>>google will bring up more forums than mailing list archives.
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>In my opinion, Forums tend to have lots of questions but far fewer
>answers.  When googling for the answer to a problem, I usually find it
>in news groups or mailing list archives, sometimes on individual web
>pages and rarely in forums.
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>Cheers
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>Steve
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A good reason for the people who know the answers and only use mailing 
lists to use forums as well.