** Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-18 22:52]: > Hey there - thanks for the welcome ;-) > > I'd tend to agree with you. It'd be great if the mailing list stuff > could get shunted to a forum too. I know a couple of LUG's that do > that. > > I suppose it's all pretty dependent on who you want to attract to a > discussion. <snip> ** end quote [Chris Rowson]
I'm not a particularly active poster here (yet) since I'm still sitting incomfortably between Debian and Ubuntu and not fully comfortable switching over (yet) - but that's a completely separate issue. I am one of those that strongly prefers lists to forums though. I don't specifically object to forums, but even though I have joined several I find that I rarely if ever participate in them. I will ask a question and it will be ages before I remember to pop back to check for an answer. If I am looking for something on there I get very frustrated with the time it takes to search and/or move between messages. I also find that dropping in and out of many different web forums is more hassle than I can be bothered with. Basically I sign up to forums and that is often as far as it gets. On the other side of things, I am subscribed to numerous mailing lists and scan through them regularly and where I can help out I do so. Maybe I'm more techy than end user, but my activity drops when forums are used. As an example, I used to be an active team member on the list and irc of the Smoothwall project, now they use forums I have dropped out of the community completely (there are other factors involved such as that I no longer use Smoothwall, but I was using it up until quite recently and long after I stopped participating). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ ==================================================================== Aptanet Ltd. | Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants., PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
