[OSM-talk] Re: [OSM-dev] Mailing list -> forum?

[Etienne Cherdlu]

Why not just set up a google group?  Its quick and easy to setup and
has email options for those who want/need them.

Etienne

On 4/26/06, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I said in response to the first mention of forums a few weeks ago, I
> think they would have some serious benfits in organisation, information
> management and tracebility.  I dont know what mail clients most people are
> using, but even with Gmail's search it is sometimes quite tricky to find
> past messages.  I'm just glad I'm not using Outlook.
>
> Would it be possible to have forum threads mailed to the mailing list for
> those who like the mailing list setup?
>
> So +1 to at least considering a forum for discussions.
>
> Cheers,
> Nickb
>
>
>  On 4/26/06, Immanuel Scholz <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I find it hard to follow diskussions as the volume of the list increases.
> > Sometimes, there are just so much new posts mixed together (people don't
> > always use proper header tags for thread-replying) that I am bored to sort
> > out the topic's I am interested in.
> >
> > Also, I have caught me now several times, that I don't write an answer,
> > just because I think "someone else is surely already replying just now".
> >
> > And searching through older posts is not *that* comfortable with my email
> > client here.
> >
> > We had at least one guy asking for a forum rather than a mailing list yet
> > (and not much people ask in *mailing lists* for a forum. If I remembered
> > correctly, he would also helping setup and maintaining it :).
> >
> > Next thing is, that there could be more topic distributions as there are
> > now (just 'dev' and 'talk'). It is very time consuming to me, to even sort
> > out all new threads that don't interest me. For my case, happily this
> > currently leads to the fact that I read almost every thread. But if the
> > volume increase futher, I will surely don't have the time to do so and
> > maybe tempted to just ignore most new threads. I know of at least one guy
> > who didn't join the list because of the volume and the inadequate ways to
> > filter out threads of interest.
> >
> >
> > Mailing lists are to me more a thing of "wakeup call", to announce
> > something or for things that really need to reach the people. I would not
> > classify much of the current traffic under this category.
> >
> > I assume, that with a forum scales better in terms of lucidity and is much
> > more efficient for people in handling different discussion threads.
> >
> >
> > So my question is: How much traffic is tolerable until we close the
> > mailing list and switch to a forum?
> >
> >
> > Ciao, Imi.
> >
> > PS: I would be in a strong favour of a *CLEAN* and *SIMPLE* forum. I speak
> > of a forum *without* stuff like blinking banners everywhere, animated user
> > picutres of half the size of a laptop screen and especally one which don't
> > turn beatuiful ascii arts into ugly pacmans ;-)
> >
> >
> >
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Etienne
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