From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 13 11:56:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f95.hotmail.com [216.32.181.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A2537B403 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from haakonlindo@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:56:50 -0700 Received: from 130.67.72.38 by lw2fd.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:56:50 GMT X-Originating-IP: [130.67.72.38] From: "Haakon -" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating a freebsd forum Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:56:50 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jul 2001 18:56:50.0614 (UTC) FILETIME=[93093560:01C10BCD] 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 It`s nothing wrong with a simple mailing list, but there is about 20 mailing lists to participate in here. And I`ve gotten used to these vBulletins and I just think they are great. I prefer bulletin boards much more than mailing lists (when the topic is so big). But anyway, this was absolutely NOT intended to go to a mailing list. I thought I wrote to the freeBSD.org web master. Sorry to all of you on the list! > > >Just out of interest: >What do you think is wrong about a simple mailing-list? > >Uli. > >On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Haakon - wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:31:40 -0000 > > From: Haakon - > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: creating a freebsd forum > > > > Hi, I`ve searched for a freeBSD forum to participate in but I haven`t >found > > any. I don`t "like" to participate in multiple mailing lists, but I >don`t > > think I have any choice :) . > > What I want to do is to create a inviting open forum for like minded who > > want all support in one place. I was thinking of buying a domain like > > freebsdconnect.com and set up a good forum and ask you to link to it >through > > the support section. But I am not sure if you are willing to do that, >and > > it`s a lot of work to set up such a forum and maybe no one will visit >it. > > So I want to ask you if you are willing to set a simple text link to a >forum > > that is solely dedicated to freebsd (as with mailing lists). The concept > > will resemble a forum like webhostingtalk.com (with the same forum >software > > if it becomes successful) with only a simple text link at the bottom to >the > > company that hosts the forum. > > If you like the forum I set up, is it likely that you will link to it >from > > the start (when it is in fact empty)? > > > > Best Regards > > Haakon Lindquist > > haakonlindo@hotmail.com > > >_________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at >http://www.hotmail.com. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >*--------------------------------------* >| www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | >| Wuppertal - Germany | >*--------------------------------------* > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message