From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 13:18:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICI2.Partners.org (phsexchici2.partners.org [170.223.254.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7D237B401 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchici2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:18:06 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1BEE@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: 'Changpeng Zhao' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: user forum Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:18:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Changpeng Zhao [mailto:cz@building2.co.jp] wrote: > Why don't you set up an online user-forum? > > Forums are far better than mailings list and newsgroups for > user (peer-to-peer) support. There are free forum packages > out there and the installation is very easy. I'm kind of curious about this -- why do you find that web forums are better? I find that email lists make more sense -- the interface is much faster (because you don't have to query the server for a ton of pictures for every page you load), and I can choose to keep some messages that have info I might want later, while trashing messages that don't interest me... Perhaps it's just that every web-based forum I've ever used is slow and clunky... Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message