Les Mikesell questioned, "...who would go there to post any answers?" The answer is the same people who share here...and probably many more who find this sparse medium harder to navigate. There's a thriving community I helped create and nurture, which I've described at http://www.deepwoods.com/transform/pubs/Community.htm
When there's value provided, many people will rise to the challenge of adding even more value.
And, yes, I know there's an archive of posts to this forum, but the question is one of focus: Do you hold more value for a lively (virtual) meeting with lots of participants, or a quiet library where information is archived? This medium feels to me more like the latter.
--Carol Anne
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:12 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting
Carol Anne Ogdin wrote:
Jumping in late here: I sincerely wish that this list was
maintained
on any of the quality "bulletin board" or "Forum" tools. It would reduce my eMail load, allow me to zoom in on just the issues of interest to me at the moment, and I can eMail those posts to myself that are relevant to my own needs for further editing and
documentation.
If people only looked for questions when they were interested in an answer, there wouldn't be any answers.
I find the entire USENET and eMail list thing utterly antediluvian, and wicked hard to use. Often, I can only barely remember that *maybe* something relevant was discussed months ago, but is now relevant to my current issue today. A "forum" is more
practical as a
tool for building a collective knowledge of the CentOS community.
But who would go there to post any answers?
Of course, for those of you who still prefer this medium, a "forum" can eMail you posts, just like you see them today. But people who would like to search for a solution from a year or so ago
could search
the central resource.
Huh?
This is on the bottom of every message. Click it sometime and follow the link there that says 'CentOS Archives'. But Google is the place to search since it has the list contents and a lot of other resources.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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