[arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

[David Benfell]

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On 06/10/12 11:14, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> 
> Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but I noticed the Forums
> traffic is order of magnitude larger than the traffic on the
> lists.
> 
In principle, I prefer mailing lists. They are not so nice, however,
when searching for information on the web, given what the various
sites that harvest the content of mailing lists do to it.

First, you'll find multiple copies of the exact same (useless, of
course, or else you would have stopped searching) posting. Second,
responses are often not even on the same page. It gets really ugly
really fast.

When I have a genuinely new situation, mailing lists can be excellent.
I just received some great help with DNSSEC on the unbound list. On
the other hand, I've sometimes received no response at all and I have
been told that the really helpful folks have all migrated to IRC (a
medium I personally just don't like).

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David Benfell
benfell at parts-unknown.org


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