[ODE] Forum?

[Nathan Ostgard]

If it's hosting and bandwidth your worried about, I'd be more than
happy to provide it.

Nathan Ostgard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Milker" <tmilker@thewretched.org>
To: <ode@q12.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [ODE] Forum?


> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:13:19PM +0200, amundb?rsand wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I do that too, but what I meant was to have it split up in
> > different categories, so I don't have to read all the discussions
I'm
> > not interested in. Also, a forum is better at keeping threads
separated,
> > in my mail program I just get lots of mail which all belong to
different
> > discussions.
>
> Then use a mailer that sorts emails via threads.  Mine has no
trouble
> with threading.  I keep an entire archive of the ODE mailing list in
my
> mailer just so that I can search it quickly and easily(and without
> having to go online to do it).  I've said it before and I'll say it
> again, splitting up the mailing list into sub-categories just
spreads
> the information out further, it sounds great on paper or in your
head
> but when you get down to it, newbies will ask questions in the
advanced
> list and duplicate questions will be asked in both.
>
> > A third point is that if we had a forum instead, my reading
> > would be "on-demand" rather than dumping into my mailbox when I'm
not
> > interested... :) It is a lot of mail for people who are only
interested
> > in parts of the discussions going on, and I guess most people
are.. just
> > a suggestion.
>
> "on-demand" cuts the cloth both ways.  It also increases bandwidth
> because you're more likely to use the forum based search than
browser
> based.  Mail is a guaranteed one time drop.  Someone would have to
host
> and pay for these forums you want.
>
> Ted
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