Thanks, Johnny, for your comments.
Can you post some URLs for CentOS forums you mentioned in your reply? I've searched high-and-low with no success.
The other thing I'd love is a link to a good RSS (or Atom) feed devoted to RHEL and/or CentOS. Any help would be most appreciated.
--Carol Anne
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 2:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Carol Anne Ogdin
caogdin@gmail.com 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.
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. This eMail list just doesn't cut it for a "knowledge base"
built up of our collective experience.
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.
--Carol Anne
I think this post gives us a good message. That is that, just like there are many people who hate the forums, there are many users who prefer the forums over the mailing lists.
From what I have been observing by participating in the BOTH worlds
for the last year or so, the number of people who are being
helped in
the forums outgrows that of the mailing lists. And if you
do google
searches, you tend to find forum posts more than mailing
posts. BUT,
my intention is not to make a comparison -- they just have
different
audience.
The point I want to make is that if you feel one method is not as well-served as the other, efforts should be made to make the other method equally good. CentOS provides the two major venues, and we should be able to choose whichever the one we feel more comfortable without sacrificing the quality of help we get. The "C" in
CentOS is
the driving force of the whole project. We, community
members, as a
whole always need to think how best we can help others.
My 2 cents worth,
I just want to point out that there are forums for CentOS, we have several moderators and community members who answer questions there every day and we can akways use more users there answering questions.
You can also search and read this list in several places that are available in a threaded format ... like:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.general
You can also search the archives using google and the site feature:
in a google search box, do:
site:http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ "Top Posting"
Regardless, forums, mailing lists and a wiki are all available for CentOS users ... and each medium is driven by "CentOS Users" who volunteer to participate for "CentOS Users" who are looking for help. We offer all 3 because different users prefer different methods.
That is what open source is all about ... pick the method you like and use it :D
Thanks, Johnny Hughes