I agree also with the e-mail statements. But I wonder how many people
would like to join the mailing list but are intimidated assuming we are
gods and won't speak to the lesser peoples...
Maybe a generic forum on the plug website "For Newbies!"
might not be a bad idea just to see what the response might be?
We could put some canned I need help with ... and some very solid
answers... and see who we might be alienating?
Then welcome them to the plug and ask them to join the list.
nathan
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 07:52, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Bill Jonas said:
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:26:48AM -0700, Terry Lynch wrote:
> >> P.S. Off topic, but I am wondering why PLUG communicates in this, at
> >> least imho, archaic and inefficient manner.
> >
> > You're right, email is *so* old-fashioned. ;-)
> >
> >> Why not a forum?
>
> Email serves the majority of the members very well. I agree with all of
> the reasons that Bill proferred.
>
> I would ask you, Terry, why do you want a forum? In what ways is an email
> list "archaic and inefficient" when compared to a forum? Please elaborate
> on your reasons for preferring a forum over an email list. They may be
> good ones. Sell it to us.
>
> >> Are the administration/resources not available?
> >
> > I don't think that it would really take many more resources for a forum,
> > other than the initial setup. I suppose that if it were preferred, the
> > Nuke software on the main PLUG web site could be used for this purpose.
>
> If the group really wants a forum, we can make one.
>
> However, I will point out as a "market test" that the current article
> submission and posting process on the current PLUG web site is close to
> how a forum works already. Once the initial article is moderated and
> posted, comments can be added by any logged in user. But even with such
> an easy process very few people besides myself submit articles to the PLUG
> web site, other than job announcements. And, very few people comment on
> the stories that are posted even though comments do not require
> moderation.
>
> PLUG discussions are almost always email list centric for historical
> reasons (that's the way it has been) and for preference reasons (that's
> the way people want it, I think). I have even posted web site articles
> asking for discussion with very few, if any, comments resulting.
>
> >> Personally I'd much prefer a forum but maybe that's just me...
> >
> > Have you considered starting one? I'm being serious. I would imagine
>
> Bill is right. You are, infact, welcome to start one. We would link to
> it from the current web site and, if it proves popular, see about
> incorporating it on the main site.
>
> I am not finding it in the email list archive but I recall a PLUG member
> setting up a forum site a couple of years ago. It was there originally to
> post member reviews of different Linux Distributions but was expandable to
> additional topics. It was used for about a month and faded away. You may
> be successful this time, however.
>
> Alan
>
>
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