[K12OSN] Opinions on a Forum

[William Fragakis]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:00 -0500, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
> 
Consider digest mode. Quickly scan the topics you want to read and chuck
the rest. There are usually 10-15 posts per digest that I receive unless
it's a slow day.

I vote elist and wiki. Forums are great for hobbyists but a lot of us
have schools to admin and need the collective brainpower when disaster
strikes. I host a couple of forums, I'm a forum kind of guy, which are
great but for this task, I must say, the list works better. 

A wiki would better organize our collective experience than having it
spread about 10 different threads and the poor newbie hamstrung because
they didn't enter a good search string. For example, if they search
audio, to get audio going, every thread that someone posted a portion of
their lts.conf would show up, too, even if those topics were about
screen resolutions.

regards,
William

> One more positive side about forums is that I can subscribe to a topic
> that 
> I want to follow. In mailing list there is no option for that if we
> won't 
> count delete button ;)
> 
> If you get about 50 e-mails in 24 hours (60% of them at the time I'm 
> sleeping) then it's a lot of work to filter out the things I want to
> read 
> and things I do not. :)
> 
> Meelis
> 
>