<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Dries Langsweirdt schreef: <blockquote cite="mid:1251471750.5444.10.camel@driesll" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The annoying thing about mailinglist is that nothing is really categorized, nor can it be moderated. Topics are interleaved in the same mail and therefore information is scattered.</pre> </blockquote> But it's possible to make a filter in your mail client, so that all mail of ubuntu-be goes to a separate folder. Together with thread view, I find this way of working very handy (using Thunderbird). <blockquote cite="mid:1251471750.5444.10.camel@driesll" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">People talk about stuff unrelated to the subject of the mail (like I do know).</pre> </blockquote> That will still happen in a forum. <blockquote cite="mid:1251471750.5444.10.camel@driesll" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">It floods your mailbox (i got 30 mails from ubuntu-be since this morning),</pre> </blockquote> I don't find that very annoying, as I use a filter. <blockquote cite="mid:1251471750.5444.10.camel@driesll" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">which makes people to become uninterested about what is going on because they don't want to be involved in all topics etc, etc, etc ...</pre> </blockquote> I'm really almost exclusively a spectator on this list, but still I'm very much interested in what's going on in Ubuntu-be. If a forum would be used, I would only watch it a couple of times a year, instead of a day. <blockquote cite="mid:1251471750.5444.10.camel@driesll" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I think there are two options to do it right: or you make several mailinglists on different topics, as suggested on the wiki (but then you make the amount of topics very limited and potentially un-democratic), or you make a real forum (not just a thing that classifies mails based on the subject, because that doesn't work due to aforementioned reasons). </pre> </blockquote> I don't think that it would make participation bigger, but rather the opposite (as well with a mailinglist as with a forum). <blockquote cite="mid:1251471750.5444.10.camel@driesll" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> These are my ideas of course, if you disagree, please let me know. </pre> </blockquote> That applies for me too. Mattias <blockquote cite="mid:1251471750.5444.10.camel@driesll" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 16:28 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Op vrijdag 28-08-2009 om 10:30 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Dries Langsweirdt: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I also think a forum is a good idea. Not only for the reason Ivan mentioned, also because the information is persistent then, from which information can be condensed in the wiki without too much work. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">So what's the difference between a forum and the already existing mailing list? -- Jan Claeys </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Disclaimer: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm">http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>