On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:17 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Kim Groneman wrote:
It will have a Web Interface (vBulletin) and there is discussion going on around NNTP as well. Personally I think it should have both.
I agree, but I'm only borg unit three of three. There are security concerns that have to be addressed and frankly, a learning curve to overcome for people that haven't experienced NNTP.
But people without desire to use nntp would just continue to use the webforum interface, right? I'm not sure I quite understand why there is a learning curve here.
Kim is referring to the learning curve for people who have not used NNTP, not for those already using NNTP. They have to figure out a) what is NNTP?, b) how do they allow NNTP traffic if their local firewall blocks it and c) what software supports NNTP. Beyond that, there is the issue of people like me who frequently use web interface over NNTP because of environmental limitations. When I'm at a customer site and I need to get a quick answer to something, I may not be able to use NNTP because either a) they don't have NNTP installed on their machines, and b) their firewall may explicitly ban NNTP. When Novell switched to their new format a year or so ago, I had to stop using the forums specifically for this reason. I couldn't get in to post questions/answer questions, because some of my customers wouldn't allow NNTP. I sorely missed the web interaction option, and thus, Novell lost me as a participant/contributor to the forums. (Maybe they did have a web interface, but I sure couldn't find it. I could only read posts.) Novell needs to keep both options open and offer that flexibility to its users, customers and partners because Novell can't predict what environment I'm going to be in day-to-day. Bryen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org