On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 07:18:32PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:38:50AM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > The purpose of the forum was not to ake over the mailing list, but assist > > is more in-depth problems and a way of people to find common issues, > > instead of using the maillist to ask for problems which have already been > > addressesed. Is'nt it funny that, when the topic is first mentioned, not > > many people have anything to say. But when someone does something, > > everyone has their two cents to add in. > > > > I am NOT trying to take over any of the other forums. Sorry if it seemed > > that way. I wish to create a place for people to talk about more in depth > > problems, where the answers can be archived and retrived by all. Forums > > will never beat mailling lists! > > > > I am aware that there are other forums out there. I am just trying to give > > back to the Debian community, as I have been giving so much. > > > > Please appreciate my efforts, and instead of trying to tell me it is > > wrong, give useful suggestions. > > A major difficulty with this suggestion is, IMHO, the question of > expert resources, that is to say the time of people whose answers to > questions are actually useful. These people seem not to be interested > in yet another forum/list/whatever that they feel obliged to > watch. (At least this is the impression I get from the responses that > I have seen to other, prior suggestions of this general sort.) I think > the 'good answer people' are a scarce resource that should be handled > carefully. Personnally, I fail to see how this proposal would use this > scarce resource more effectively, so I am fearful about giving it a > try. What happens if the 'good answer people' stop paying attention > and stop noticing to pleas for help? Not good.
Maybe a project to index the mailing list the way dmoz indexes the web? -- hendrik > -- > Paul E Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
