On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 19:58 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: > In truth Mailing lists get much faster responses and more viewing than > forums do. Forums just tend to be easier to google.
Neither is intrinsically better than the other, I think. (Although personally mailing lists integrate much more easily into my daily workflow.) Some communities are heavily forum based, with either no or very quiet mailing lists. Freevo isn't one of them, at least not at the moment. So users need to go where the help is, and right now that's the freevo-users mailing list. > If a mailing list is not user-friendly for you, you might want to > consider changing you mail client. No insult intended, just that a > mailing list is only as friendly as your mail client. For users who just want to get in to ask a question and probably not care about discussions beyond that, I can see why forums would be easier. Both forums and mailing lists have the upfront inconvenience of subscribing (or registering), but with a mailing list, after you've got your question answered (or ignored, as the case may be on some lists), you need to take that extra bit of action to turn off the email tap. With mailing lists, you also need to setup appropriate filters for sane organization. So I'm certainly sympathetic to the class of user who just wants to ask a quick question and be done with it. Cheers, Jason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
