[Wolves] FedoraForum

[Peter Cannon]

Evening All

Its that time again, Friday night bear in hand, wife at work and the kids in 
bed.

I've checked out the new support forum for Fedora and I have to say I'm 
impressed so much so that I've rejoined. Most of you clever clogs will know 
the program/application/mailing list thingy they are using, I don't know what 
it is/called.

Anyway the list is now moderated which is a good thing over the last six 
months it had degenerated into constant slanging matches the reasons for 
which, IMHO are;

1. The old guard feeling threatened by the new kids on the block.
2. No one to say "Stop this or your off" (which actually is impossible to 
impose as you just rejoin under another name/email address).
3. Lots of beginners (I still cant stand 'Newbie') who haven't yet gained the 
etiquette skills, hence the old guard going for the kill.

Back to the review;

I like the fact that you can search it on-line both the archives and the 
current mails I also like the ability to look up who is a member, so long as 
they fill out the profile feature you are able to gauge their experience and 
relevance (I know people lie).

You can see how many members and guests are currently on line and all sorts of 
other info. Its all in one place.

There are four or five lists (Forgotten the actual figure) so you can join 
one, two or the lot and keep upto-date with them all in one place. I have 
chosen not to receive mails, which is brilliant as before, every morning, my 
in-box got flooded when I switched on, for about 5 minutes, I can now view 
all posts 'on-line' a little bit like Gmail I suppose. (anyone want one? I'm 
up to 50 invites at the moment) You can upload pictures of yourself (They all 
remind me of Jono! Heavy metal bods :-P) and you can have an avatar (Yep I've 
got one, Mr Turpin now has a face) you can also give your Yahoo, MSN blah 
blah blah messenger/chat details so people can abuse you person to person.

All this stuff is in a colum next to your post so theres no nipping off to 
another section or website to find out. Theres an announcement section, so 
FC4 is well represented/documented with screenshots etc.

Check it out guys, it might be Redhat, it might be corporate, but its still 
bloody good (Fedora I'm sorry I cheated on you! Do you forgive me?)

www.fedoraforum.org

-- 
Regards
Peter Cannon
peter at cannon-linux.co.uk

"There is every excuse for not knowing"
"There is no excuse for not asking"