Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Jens Nixdorf <jens.nixdorf.liste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

this discussion (and all the other discussions regarding this topic) 
seems to come directly from the european parlament: Very very much noise 
with very very small results. If all decisions around SUSE would be 
managed this way, we would have now SUSE 0.9 beta.

I am reading mailing lists regularly since a long time. Even longer (and 
still) i read several Usenet groups. And i'm a forumreader too. 

A NNTP-ML-Forum-Gateway is crap. Because most of the common Forum-Readers 
would be pissed off by netiquette-discussions, which will come up 
inevitably started by oldfashioned mailing-list-users. And vice versa. 
Not to mention (especially german) usenet-users. Each way has its assets 
and drawbacks, but in no way they are going together.

My advice: Set up a forum, look how it is going, and if it is going 
worse, shut it down. If its going well, all is fine, isnt it? 

Second advice: Make it clear (for yourself) for what a forum will be 
mostly used and for what purpose this list is. Is it the same? I dont 
think so. 

Sometimes these semi-religious discussions are very boring, 
good-for-nothing and at least such discussions seems to bind more 
ressources than to run a forum.

regards, Jens

PS: All above is IMHO only and not a subject of any higher truth, 
nevertheless some parts could be provocative. ;)