On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:28, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote: > Hi. > > marius popa wrote: > > Rick Meyer wrote: > >> I wasn't sure where to ask this, so I'm posting it here. > > Good. :) > > >> The Bacula mailing list are great and very active. Some of the posts > >> are also fairly large - especially the replies. I would like to bounce > >> the idea > >> of adding a discussion system to the current website something like > >> phpBB ( > >> http://www.phpbb.com/index.php ) > > > > Good idea , don't know if is worth it (someone have to keep it secure) > > Not so good idea I think. > The maillists are Baculas way-of-support. They are very active and people > response quite fast. I don't think you will and can achive that with some > webbased-forum or board. > For myself I can say that I won't monitor a forum/board on a regular basis. > > >> It would be an easy setup and make it easier for those of us that > >> don't have access to our mail at all times. > > Having access to mail isn't that much of a problem if you have access to > the internet at all. > There are plenty of mailproviders with a webmail-interface. > > If you need a gmail-invitation let me know. ;^) > > > There is one blog interface for bacula users > > http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user > > What a perfect way to capture email-addresses for spam. Yugh. > Anyway, besides the webmail-interfaces thats a good way to read/write to > the maillist. > > From my point of view we don't need a board/forum atm, maybe the 'boss' > thinks different?
Gee. Have I become the "boss" :-) Oh well, but I really prefer to be the arbitrator of last resort. I can see how a web-based forum could be very useful -- perhaps blog.gmane already responds to that request at least in part. However, my personal preference is email, and it is all I can handle at the current time. Email is a bit of a problem when I go on vacation, but I am working on that. Like you (Michael), I really couldn't affort to "monitor" a forum, and for me that would be a real pity. I am responding to fewer and fewer emails because there are now very capable people who can respond, and if I try to just give a quick answer I often another question to my response (groan). However, I do read all the emails and often cull out problems and suggestions and add them to the todo list even if I do not respond to a particular item. Also, more frequently than I would like, someone emails a simple question, and I realize that there is a bug lurking behind it. With a forum, I would miss all these things. -- Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005 Attend MEDC 2005 May 9-12 in Vegas. Learn more about the latest Windows Embedded(r) & Windows Mobile(tm) platforms, applications & content. Register by 3/29 & save $300 http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6883&alloc_id=15149&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
