Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:16 +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 12 June 2012 23:04, David Benfell wrote: > > On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > >> > >> The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: > >> > >> "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/";

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-13 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 12 June 2012 23:04, David Benfell wrote: > On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: >> >> "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/"; >> >> Jeremiah's pointed on two front-ends to the same data,  best op

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-13 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:04 AM, David Benfell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: >> >> "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/"; > > si

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-12 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > > The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: > > "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/"; > > Jeremiah's pointed on two front-ends to the same data, best optio

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-12 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 12 June 2012 08:05, David Benfell wrote: > 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, howeve

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-12 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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, w

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Monday 11 Jun 2012 22:35:15 Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > The nicest setups I've seen, as far as making sure that relevant > people see relevant topics, have the mailing list and forum be two > frontends to the same set of data. This is a bit of a pain to set up > if it's not done from the get-go, but

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Mateusz Loskot writes: > Hi, > > I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers > use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people > registered to the Arch Forums? > > Can we have some basic mailing lists statistics anywhere posted? > > Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 11 June 2012 16:11, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > One can subscribe to just a couple forum threads or sections to keep > the noise down. Such granularity is not available on the ML as there > are just a few Arch ML lists although you can ignore / mute on a > per-thread basis too. Certainly, it's a

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > 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 moderatin

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 11 June 2012 09:31, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > 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 >>

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby 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, t

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Martin Cigorraga
> 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. > > +1 I tend to use ML to catch up the news -I'm subscribed to all MLs- and ask for help wh

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
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. -- RMA.

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 10 June 2012 19:40, Kwpolska wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> On 10 June 2012 19:25, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: >>> On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 19:14:19 Mateusz Loskot wrote: I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers use the mailing lists in

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 10 June 2012 20:40, Kwpolska wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Mateusz Loskot > wrote: > > On 10 June 2012 19:25, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: > >> On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 19:14:19 Mateusz Loskot wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers > >>> use the mai

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Kwpolska
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 10 June 2012 19:25, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: >> On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 19:14:19 Mateusz Loskot wrote: >>> >>> I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers >>> use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people >>> registe

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 10 June 2012 19:25, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 19:14:19 Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers >> use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people >> registered to the Arch Forums? >> >> Can we have some basic mailing li

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 19:14:19 Mateusz Loskot wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers > use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people > registered to the Arch Forums? > > Can we have some basic mailing lists statistics anywhere posted? > > Personall

[arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-10 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Hi, I'm wondering, what amount of Arch users and developers use the mailing lists in comparison to the number of people registered to the Arch Forums? Can we have some basic mailing lists statistics anywhere posted? Personally, I prefer mailing lists, but I noticed the Forums traffic is order of