On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:43 AM, L. Rahyen <research@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday March 21 2008 17:02:33 Mark Knecht wrote: > > As an alternative, decouple the forum and the list and get helpful folks to > > pay attention to the forums. > > Main point of creating ML <-> forum link was to not fragment user base and > allow people who don't like forums (and want to use ML) but can (and want) > to help to the users. Personally I don't like forums very much (however I can > use them if necessary but without ML <-> forum link it would simply be > impractical for me to read so much messages per day) but I understand why > some other people like them. > > > > Personally I'd prefer the list not be split. > > +1. And I want to say that I don't see any problem actually. This list exist > for helping users. For advanced users who's questions aren't suitable for > wine-users we already have separate list - wine-devel. So for people who want > to ask/answer advanced questions wine-devel is best place. > Yep. It's often painful getting new things started. I think a year from now having the forum as an easily searchable repository of this information will likely be better than using Google to find a single on-topic response to some problem. I can imagine I search with Google, find an email that looks interesting, see the topic and then go to the forum to read the whole thread. I likely won't start in the forum but I could end up there to read more context info. Cheers, Mark
