On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:58 +1100, Peter Flodin wrote:
On 1/26/06, Sonja Krause-Harder
wrote: Why? What would you expect from it, compared to the existing SUSE community forums?
The why:
Web forums promotes communication between people no matter what their technical level. Mailing lists very nearly discourage newbies from helping newbies, as mailing lists usually stop this by complaining about the wrong quoting method or posting in HTML, or off-topic.
Just looking for info. Pardon my ignorance. How is a forum any better than a mailing list. From my stand point you still have to type in some text somewhere and send it off somewhere for other people to respond to hopefully with a helpful answer. Is this not what this list provides currently? I don't see how a mailing list will "discourage newbies" from participating except for the fact that the information on how to subscribe is usually buried somewhere and -not- easily found. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998