"Chris Rowson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I checked out the ubuntuforums.org earlier today to see whether or not > there was a UK LoCo section there. > > I was a little surprised to read that the mailing list had voted not > to have a presence at ubuntuforums.org and I have a little difficulty > understanding why. > > Surely in this day and age, forums are a viable alternative to mailing > lists, and even preferable in some situations. I wondered if the > decision to opt out of ubuntuforums.org was influenced by a fear of > such a presence damaging the usage of the mailing list. > > Whilst I can see why this might be a slap in the face to people who > have invested so much time into building up the mailing list, surely > if people would prefer to communicate through the forums, it'd be a > good idea to use them and 'grow' the community. > > I am - I know making the assumption that people prefer forums, but I > think in general this assumption seems to be true. Where mailing lists > are the mainstay of open source and linux communication I think forums > would give the group a higher profile and encourage a far greater > interaction with the community. > > Does anyone else agree or am I alone? Is there any harm in requesting > a UK LoCo forum? > > Chris >
I am one that doesn't like mailing lists. My inbox gets too choked up anyway with other stuff and I find myself not bothering to read a lot - just hit delete to clear some space :-) . The next best thing to a forum is the news.gmane.org newserver where the lists are in newsgroup form and topics nicely threaded which is where I am posting this from. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
