[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[Deusiah]

I read all of your reply sparks but I'm afraid the only things I
agreed with were, the lack of content in the new message emails
however not all forum scripts do this and those that do have mods
available, and the fact that forums have bigger page sizes. Well yes
they do but I fail to see why this is important? If it opens in
seconds (as PunBB does) it's fine by me. I read these through Gmail
anyway so the pages are always bigger.

I don't think a forum is any less accessible or usable than a mailing
list. How is opening gmail any less accessible than opening a forum? I
believe a lot of the things you have said are based upon how you
perform things. Not everyone leaves their mail client open for example
so your point "I don't have to think, I wonder if anyone is asking any
interesting questions on the wolves lug forum?" is not valid in my
case and the case of others who do not leave their mail client open.

Forgive me for not posting a lengthy email addressing all of your
raised points but I no longer see the point in arguing my opinion. I
have said all I wished to say and would just be repeating myself.

For me forums will always be superior to mailing lists which in my
opinion are just a way of misusing a technology for something it was
not intended for. The result of which is messy formatting caused by
everyone not using the same client.

Chris

On 5/18/05, Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/05, Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:
> > I made the same mistakes/misconceptions when I joined the list I was under the
> > impression this was a pool (Cess pool I think ;) of Linux experts who would
> > answer my every pathetic problem and because the majority live in a 15 mile
> > radius I could get them to come round and fix things.
> >
> > How wrong I was, I've done the top posting, none cutting and deliberate
> > flamming and paid the price as Adam pointed out. Today I'm a different person
> > I'm sick to death of all the mails lately that are just replies with no
> > effort to trim.
> 
> I tell you what, this is a shining light of greatness and Peter
> deserves true kudos. As he says, when he started posting he was doing
> all the things that us boring old-timers declared as "wrong"; he
> railed against the flaming he received and attempted to justify his
> behaviour. Since then, he has learned that there are reasons that
> these conventions have grown up other than just a clinging to a
> pointless "tradition", and has himself assumed not only the
> conventions of that tradition but evangelism of them to a new
> audience. A convert to the Right Way of doing things, because he's now
> seen the reason for them and agrees. Good work, Peter.
> 
> Now we just have to stop you trying to sell me Dell servers I can't afford. ;-)
> 
> Aq.
> 
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