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Re: [opensuse] Analysis of forum use of other Linux Distros.
  • From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:10:09 +0100
  • Message-id: <drco0b$21u$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Peter Flodin wrote:

> I will just state again, that people who talk about gateways etc
> between mailing lists and the web forum, haven't got full
> comprehension of what a successful web forum is about.

As I'm one of the proponents of just that, perhaps you'd care to
enlighten me as to why a bi-dir gated forum/mailinglist would not be
successful? What would it be missing that a "normal" webforum has?

> There is no reason that an openSUSE web forum will not rival any of
> the above in terms of usage.

Absolutely.

> And does anybody who thinks that the mailing lists on these other
> distros are non-functioning because they have successful web forums?
> Of course not.

What is your reasoning for wanting to split the community? I'm
genuinely interested in understanding this.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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