On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:44:31 -0700, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:03:06 +0000 (UTC), Jim Henderson <hendersj@...155...> wrote:
Hackers blow off questions that are inappropriately targeted in order to try to protect their communications channels from being drowned in irrelevance. You don't want this to happen to you.
Although this isn't really directly related to your point, one of the issues with forums is that, while most of the Inkscape developers do read the inkscape-user mailing list, most of us aren't able to keep up with forums.
That's the main reason I'd prefer the "official" Inkscape forum to be an interface to the mailing list over other approaches, even though I certainly do appreciate the benefits of "real" forums (e.g. being able to post inline images as examples, more robust threading, etc.).
Agreed - I have nearly 200 newsgroups that I currently track, and when dealing with that many groups, a consistent interface is the only way I personally can get anything done at all. If I had to go from web site to web site to check all the stuff I follow, I'd never get any work done during the day (many of the groups pertain directly to my job).
The POV-Ray community model is another great example of how this type of thing can (and should) work - they've got a web interface to an NNTP server; they've got binaries groups where inline image posting is permitted (though it's not a hard enforcement in other groups - I'm not sure why people think NNTP can't handle inline images, it certainly can). news.povray.org is usable both with a news reader as well as the web interface - those who might benefit from seeing how someone else has set this up might wander over and have a look.
Jim