[arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Mon Jun 11 05:22:51 EDT 2012


On 11 June 2012 09:31, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> <mihamina at rktmb.org> wrote:
>> On 06/10/2012 09:14 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally, I prefer mailing lists,
>>
>> So do I.
>> Mailing list is, in my VERY humble opinion, the place where you find higher
>> quality discussion than on web forums.
>>
>> But, that's just my opinion.
>
> As a forum moderator I concur. Having said that however, I believe its
> important that new users are directed to the forums first so that the
> MLs can be kept as clean as possible (moderating a ML is a different
> kettle of fish from moderating a forum).

IMO, that is a very good point indeed.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net


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