On Sun, Feb 09, 2003, Ran Zahor wrote about "Ynet Forums Linux Lack of support": > As you probably know or heard, Ynet forums and site not supporting > "Linux browsers", I am the forum manager of the Linux Community and I
Yes, I always wondered about that. Having a Linux forum in Ynet is similar to holding meetings of the "Anti-Globalization Vegetarians Association" in McDonald's... :) Ynet itself, the newspaper site, works well with Mozilla, and I use it frequently. It is just the forums part that doesn't work. In fact, for this reason I never even saw what a Ynet forum looks like - and frankly, I don't really care. There are plenty of other alternatives, both commercially run (tapuz, etc.) and voluntarily run (like this list). > As you know Ynet publish lots of articles regarding the GNU/Linux and > the opensource and GNU movement, I think they lead the amount of PR they > done, and Gal Mor that wrote most of the articles give a leveled picture > of the Linux events and news. This is opposite to the actions of the > technical person/department that run Ynet Internet section and > development. One of signs of a consumer society without monopolies and with healthy competition is unbundling. Unbundling means that you are free to get your news from one site (ynet.co.il) but your forums from other site - choosing for each of these functions the best site. As long as Ynet's forum system sucks and its news system is nice, I will continue to use only one, and take the other "business" elsewhere. > technical guy say things like "for 5% of the surfers community that use > fro example Netscape it's not worth the effort" or "If you add Linux It depends if it's really an effort. I did not look into Ynet's problem with mozilla - maybe the changes that need to be made are relatively simple? > I think the "Newspaper of the Medina" should be available to all surfer, Actually, it is. It's only the forums that don't work... > getting this mails. At lease the answer I will get will not be : "I just > got few replies from users ." A business-person should know that "I just got a few complaints" is not the best way to gauge satisfaction... In most kinds of businesses (which do not have long-term attachments like banks, etc.) consumers will never bother to complain but rather take their business elsewhere. An off-topic example: I few years ago, Burger-King was my favorite fast- food joint (in Israel). Then they did changes that pissed me off, and I and a bunch of friends simply took our business (stomach, in this case) elsewhere. I never bothered writing Burger King a letter of complaint, and they never new that they did something wrong. These days the papers are filled with stories of Burger-King (Israel) going bankrupt - and I have to say I was not surprised. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Feb 9 2003, 7 Adar I 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I don't live on the edge, but sometimes I http://nadav.harel.org.il |go there to visit. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
