Christoph Eckert wrote: >>Isn't a wiki a kind of forum too? ...but the entries are of higher >>quality > > > That's the point. Did you ever read a thread in a forum (or even a > thread of a recent discussion on a mailing list provided by a HTML > gateway)? > > You read a lot and in the end you know that the discussed problem wasn't > solved. You have messed time. > man, do you know how many web forums there are out there?!!! i've really gotta say that if it wasn't for web-based forums, i'd still be ... well, computer-illiterate. i'd say that forums have helped me out of hopeless situations 80% of the time to 20% for mailing lists. it is *much* easier to search a forum for an *existing* solution than to scour mailing lists. sure, if your problem involves using software that is in alpa,beta or high development, then a mailing list is perfect to deal with new problems that may arise and haven't been dealt with before. sorry, but i think this is such a non-debate ... > OTOH, problems solved in a long thread can be condensed on a wiki page, > in an optimal world by the one who got helped. This way the wiki grows > pages with high quality content. > wikis are a good idea, but they hardly ever progress past a few brief, initial offerings ... well, the linux audio ones, anyway. shayne
