Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Gustavo Seabra wrote:

> Robert wrote:
>
>> jdow wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Warren Togami" <wtogami at redhat.com>
>>>
>>>> http://www.livejournal.com/users/wtogami/2005/02/04/
>>>>
>>>> Key to the problem is that mailing lists are far from the best 
>>>> medium for end-user support.  We need to steer end-users to an 
>>>> entirely different medium in order to scale effectively.  Official 
>>>> project change in that direction is happening soon.  Read the link 
>>>> above for details.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Eeeewwwww, web forums. Bye guys.
>>> {^_^}
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  And then there was this shopkeeper who was upset that his shop 
>> was so disorderly until he ran off all his customers. EXCELLENT 
>> SOLUTION!
>>
> The point here is not /his/ solution, but I think he's just expressing 
> what he'd do (and I believe most of us dumb-mortal-users would do as 
> well) if the RedHat guys go ahead with this idea. That is definitely a 
> very bad idea, one that would probably jeopardize the whole 
> "fedora-users-community" idea. There's been plenty of solutions 
> proposed here on this thread there are *much* better than the dreaded 
> web forums.
>
> I second JDow's opinion. / Eeeewwwww, web forums. Bye guys. /. If they 
> *want* ideas, they'll certainly find within this (so far) community.
>
I still don't get why are Web forums so dreaded, but that's just me... I 
haven't seen a *single* reason why not to make it so... Unless, of 
course you still want to recieve 500+ e-mail messages if you are away of 
your computer for a day or two and could not cancel mail delivery 
temporarily (if you don't get the digest, of course). To each their own, 
I just don't get why people don't like the web forums idea... Maybe a 
private NTTP server would be more suitable for this, where Red Hat could 
even set the caducity of messages. You still need a helper application 
to read the messages like Evolution, Thunderbird or whatever, and still 
avoid having *your* inbox flooded.