9. I won't forget to send to linux-user anymore "1. I don't care about old school feeling, sorry, what's the point of inventing new forms of communication then? 2. um as far as arriving in mail boxes try gentoo's forums where it sends you an email when a reply is received? but it won't send you another one until you check it? 3. forums are good at handling tantgents? I thought they were better at creating them, which means more thought 5. Forums allow you to go back and check old things you might have deleted from your email. 6. Forums also allow new people who maybe would have missed the conversation on the mailing list to read the thread and add input. 7. and I'm tossing it around again. 8. did I miss anything?" <div>On 3/15/06, Caleb Cushing <<a href="mailto:xenoterracide@gmail.com">xenoterracide@gmail.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">1. I don't care about old school feeling, sorry, what's the point of inventing new forms of communication then? 2. um as far as arriving in mail boxes try gentoo's forums where it sends you an email when a reply is received? but it won't send you another one until you check it? 3. forums are good at handling tantgents? I thought they were better at creating them, which means more thought 5. Forums allow you to go back and check old things you might have deleted from your email. 6. Forums also allow new people who maybe would have missed the conversation on the mailing list to read the thread and add input. 7. and I'm tossing it around again. 8. did I miss anything?</div><div style="direction: ltr;"> <div>On 3/14/06, Charles Ulrich <<a href="mailto:charles@idealso.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">charles@idealso.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Caleb Cushing wrote: > I was thinking it might be nice if GLLUG had a forum instead of just the > mailing list. Thoughts? We've tossed the idea around in the past, but the consensus has typically been that we should stick to the mailing list. The number of messages posted to the list each week is pretty manageable and we don't usually go off on too many wild tangents, which forums are particularly good at handling. There's also the fact that mailing list traffic is automatically delivered to our inboxes. Many of us simply wouldn't have the time or remember to check forums in any regular manner. In order to have as many people involved as possible in GLLUG discussion and activities, it might be better to keep all it all in one place. Finally, mailing lists have that old-school, open source community "feel" to them that forums just can't reproduce. :) -- Charles Ulrich Ideal Solution, LLC -- <a href="http://www.idealso.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.idealso.com</a> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>