Alan Cox wrote: > The forums on the other hand seem to be booming - which is good, and > perhaps as much a demographic and technological shift as anything else ? Dear Alan, I usually follow your advice, and when I read your earlier praise of the fedoraforum, I took a look there. (I take it you were referring to www.fedoraforum.org .) I am actually a long-time member of this forum, though I hadn't looked at it for some time. I did today, going through some 30-40 pages of postings. I was surprised how little I found of any interest; in fact the only item I noted was a suggestion how to use dolphin to unpack a multipart rar file. (I haven't tried it yet.) Generally speaking, I find forums far less attractive than mailing lists or newsgroups, where it is much easier (in my experience) to skim through 100 postings, and pick out the 3 or 4 of interest. I do agree that forums (fora?) seem to be booming, while mailing lists appear to be regarded as pass\'e. I recently asked my ISP (eircom.net) why they no longer served newsgroups, but I could not find anyone there who even knew what a newsgroup was. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
