ATTN SELF-STYLED LIST POLICE (was RE: Mr. Day)

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 23:20 -0500, Bill (William) Triest wrote:
> Second of all, would it be appropriate to see if official forums could 
> be devised to replace the mailing lists?   New users should already be 
> familiar with a forum system, so I don't see that it would be much 
> harder for them.  Yet forums would seem to fix many of these problems.  
> If people want to complain about bandwidth, then they can choose not to 
> view a thread.  If the message is screened properly, html shouldn't hurt 
> it (or only allow bbcode etc).  Signing up for an account is a little 
> bit of a hassle, but its really no worse then signing up for a mailing 
> list.  With a proper search feature, I think they are just as useful.

Maybe not official, but there are forums for Fedora users over at
http://www.fedoraforum.org/

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>