Taming the mailing lists?

[Mikha ben Avraham]

M. Fioretti wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 16:50:20 PM -0500, Mikha ben Avraham (mikhame at sbcglobal.net) wrote:
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>>Steve Searle wrote:
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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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>I swear this is my last message in this thread. Said this:
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>>A good reason for the people who know the answers and only use
>>mailing lists to use forums as well.
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>you have missed again the point, which is to save time. Communication
>must be fast and effective. If the majority of people who know the
>answers (ie have managed to become expert) also prefer mailing lists
>it is quite likely that the two things are related.
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>Ciao,
>Marco Fioretti
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I thought the point was to tame mailing lists?