Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
mcquaid mcquaid escribe: > I have to chime in here and say I can't stand mailing lists. Most web > forums these days are far from clumsy. Now searching the archive of the > mailing lists, now thats clumsy. Off the top of my head, one thing that > would be great with a forum is subcategories. Im

Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread brainball
It is indeed so that webforums are more accesible to the avarage user then the mailinglists are. Though I would not go so far as to say that they are a better support solution. The ubuntu forums which are mentioned as an example are also a very good example of bad support. A lot of the suggestions

Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread mcquaid mcquaid
I have to chime in here and say I can't stand mailing lists.  Most web forums these days are far from clumsy.  Now searching the archive of the mailing lists, now thats clumsy.  Off the top of my head, one thing that would be great with a forum is subcategories.  Imagine having sections like, pci s

Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:09:34AM +0200, Asbj??rn S??b?? wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:27:54PM +1000, Terry North wrote: > > Is there any support for a forum as an alternative to > > the user list, which is such a clumsy, fragmented and > > disorganised format? > > I am completely against i

Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread Asbjørn Sæbø
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:27:54PM +1000, Terry North wrote: > Is there any support for a forum as an alternative to > the user list, which is such a clumsy, fragmented and > disorganised format? I am completely against it. With a mailing list, all messages get delivered to my inbox, grouped and

Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread Matthias Koenig
Terry North <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any support for a forum as an alternative to > the user list, which is such a clumsy, fragmented and > disorganised format? Well, the format depends on your mail client ;-) I consider most webforums as broken. Have you ever tried to follow subthre

Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:27 +1000, Terry North wrote: > Is there any support for a forum as an alternative to > the user list, which is such a clumsy, fragmented and > disorganised format? > Huh? I find web forums clumsy, fragmented, and disorganised. Every web forum has a different interface.

Re: [Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-22 Thread alsa-user-admin
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:27:54PM +1000, Terry North wrote: > Is there any support for a forum as an alternative to > the user list, which is such a clumsy, fragmented and > disorganised format? It may seem like that to you, but mailing lists have a long history, with excellent tools exist to ma

[Alsa-user] User lists v forums

2006-05-21 Thread Terry North
Is there any support for a forum as an alternative to the user list, which is such a clumsy, fragmented and disorganised format? To whom should one address a proposal for a forum? ---