On Sunday April 10 2005 10:31 am, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi everybody, > i would like to know why the Debian community has not created a > web forum like Ubuntu has (www.ubuntuforums.org). I think that this > way of communicating would have a greater impact on the users, of > course leaving always the space for the nice and useful mailing > list that the Debian project has. Forums considered harmful. The web is not designed for efficient flow of a two-way conversation, and trying to make it do that invariably reduces functionality and limits users in ways that newsgroups and mailing lists do not. Try filtering a thread on a forum (oh, wait...you can't!). -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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