Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
They also might only be interested in a subforum that has 5-10 posts per day. Consider and compare the volume of this list to a few posts in a subforum of interest, that they can access, read, and leave at their liesure. Are you sure an email client/mailing list is friendly by comparison?
Yep. Try comparing participating in just 10 forums with 10 different user interfaces each on their own screen to participating in 10 mailing-lists with one user-interface on one screen.
Which is why we should have *one* forum thats an official SUSE forum, one place to go thats the end all be all for legal issues that can be dealt with.
This is perhaps religious, but having only ONE official SUSE webforum does nothing to help me manage 10 other webfora. That's the primary reason I dislike webfora - if you use more than one, they become cumbersome and unwieldy. Anyway, that's my personal belief, maybe others can manage fine.
Unfortunately, my good reason for an "official" forum relates to many bad reasons. [snip] With the recent (as yet, not explained, to me atleast) issues with suseforums.net, I have only one reason. As long as Novell/SUSE is around, I know that forum will be around. It won't experience random downtime, be sold to some unknown person(s) who doesn't really care about SUSE or even Linux in general, etc, etc.
That's probably the best reason for having an official forum that I've heard so far. /Per Jessen, Zürich