RE: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-25 Thread Angela Burrell
My vote is for a web forum. Why? Because I'm a wine user, not a developer. I subscribed to this mailing list because I had a question about wine installation/use/errors (or whatever) and not because I wanted to read every single message going back and forth about wine, that does not relate to me

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-23 Thread David Shaw
Jeff Vian wrote: How about the ability to post/read/respond to messages even when you're not at your own computer? Many people on Yahoo Groups, for instance, don't even have a computer at home and access their groups from works or library computers. To my mind, this is probably the most import

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-23 Thread Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
Peter Åstrand wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: You can't reply to the archives.. you still have to sign up for the mailing list. I don't like having my inbox flooded with emails from the devel and bugs lists. If I go to a forum, I see a topic once an

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-23 Thread Peter Åstrand
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) wrote: You can't reply to the archives.. you still have to sign up for the mailing list. I don't like having my inbox flooded with emails from the devel and bugs lists. If I go to a forum, I see a topic once and read all of the post

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Sterling Christensen
For Wine, stickies would be useful for questions that keep getting asked very frequently. Asnwer it once then sticky it. That way others thinking of asking the same question will see the stick instead for weeks, months to come - until you decide there are too many stickies and unstick it. Forums g

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Philippe A.
2006/4/22, Sterling Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For Wine, stickies would be useful for questions that keep gettingasked very frequently. Asnwer it once then sticky it. That way othersthinking of asking the same question will see the stick instead forweeks, months to come - until you decide the

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread Philippe A.
>* ... What else?>How about the ability to post/read/respond to messages even when you're not at your own computer?  Many people on Yahoo Groups, for instance,don't even have a computer at home and access their groups from works orlibrary computers.  To my mind, this is probably the most important

Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums

2006-04-22 Thread David Shaw
Molle Bestefich wrote: Paul wrote: No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information. I feel the same. I'd like to know exactly what it is