Fedoraforum.org is now official?

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Forums are NOT a good idea for support --- I agree.
Simple email lists work.
Sounds to me like  "committee" wants to control too much
suggest voting with feet
David
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:07 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On Apr 5, 2005 8:15 PM, Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
>> > When you find one who is more successful at handling very-high-volume
>> > traffic and contributing meaningfully to it with fora rather than
>> > mailing lists, let me know... I'd like to meet that person, for I've
>> > never found someone like that.
>> >
>> You sound like you need gmail. Should I send you an invite?
>
> Good Lord, no. Thanks for your good intentions, but I can see nothing
> that Gmail would offer me that my Linux-based notebook (and my 60GB
> email account) don't already give me, and indeed it would offer me a
> whole lot less.
>
> But you *have* missed the point. I'm on the run right now and don't have
> time to explain, but in brief: I think fora...
>
> - are slower to use
> - are slower to browse
> - are slower to respond
> - don't let me work offline (as I am doing now, for instance)
> - don't let me filter/search/manage massive amounts of traffic
> - don't let me store my own archives and copies
> - waste massive amounts of bandwidth
> - require a mouse...
> - ...and a lot of patience for EACH page to load after EACH click
> - and much, much more
>
> As someone who answers more questions than I ask, and as someone who
> reads a large part of the 400 messages I get per day, and as someone who
> has been doing this (Usenet, mailing lists, fora) for almost as long as
> they've all been around,
> I can categorically tell you that a forum is
> much less functional for experts.
>
> And we're going to be less valuable as a community if we have fewer
> people answering fewer questions, aren't we?
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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