On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:08:53 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Perhaps suggest they take such questions to where they will be heard? There are lots of occasions where an opensuse list is not the right place to pursue a particular topic, and people take it directly to the <project>-list. It seems quite reasonable to suggest to a forum-user that 'you better ask that question' over on 'list77' (which has the right people listening).
Users don't want to have to figure out whether to use a forum, a mailing list, IRC, or some other venue to ask questions. The openSUSE Forums are an official way for them to ask for assistance, and that's where many users do in fact go. While we do occasionally see people redirected to other venues to get faster help (IRC is a fairly common suggestion, for example, for those who have an immediate 'I need to fix this NOW' kind of problems), sending users from one official venue to another is both inefficient for the user and serves to highlight how fragmented the openSUSE community really is. Not only that, but I'm sure that those who use the mailing lists really wouldn't want the 50,000+ people who are subscribed to the forums to start posting all of their questions to the mailing lists. These mailing lists would then become pretty much completely unusable. Mailing lists tend to be suitable for relatively small groups, but if you were suddenly receiving several thousand e-mails a day, I'm sure you would be quite unhappy about it. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org