[CentOS] Forum utility, facility?

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Fri Aug 25 17:31:02 UTC 2006


On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:50 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > Decided for the first time to go look at the forum and see if it looked
> > useful. Can't decide. *Lots* of Qs with few responses.
>
> We need more people to browse the forums and answer questions there.

I always wondered why Fedora split the group of users between 2 sources.
Was it to keep the signal-to-noise ratio acceptable on the mailinglists or 
just because some type of people would otherwise be left out because 
mailinglists do not appeal to them.

If we could merge mailinglists and forums (by presenting the mailinglist 
in a forum-like view) and use the forum comment interface to send mails to 
a mailinglist, then both groups would be merged instead of seperated.

But of course that would mean destroying the content available in the 
current forums. Something that should have been investigated before 
setting up forums ?

And I'm not sure if any software exists that would allow this. Doesn't 
seem that hard to write though...

Kind regards,
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