RE: [Nolug] Re: Forum

Hi all.

I know that I don't post here often, but I do read and learn.

I agree 100% with Murat's comments below.

John

    John Souvestre - Southern Star - (504) 888-3348 - www.sstar.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@redfishnetworks.com [mailto:owner-nolug@redfishnetworks.com]
On Behalf Of A. Murat Eren
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:52 PM
To: nolug@nolug.org
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Re: Forum

 Hi,

On Monday 11 September 2006 16:55, Mark Gunnell wrote:
> i'd be curious to see how many LUGs participate in mailing lists as their
> primary means of distributing and sharing information.

 I'm an open source software develoeper and I'm getting maybe 2000+ e-mails
from 60+ e-mailing lists everyday. And the total number of forums that I'm
checking everyday is, 0.

 I'd agree that a Wiki or a Blog would be a good way to "share knowledge". But
IMHO e-mailing lists are still the best way for high-level "communication"
and efficent "discussion". And still I don't know what is forums for (wait! I
know that I'm a little bit thickheaded about this).

 For example in Turkey there is only one big LUG with 26 e-mailing lists.
There are at least 5.000-8.000 people are communicating via these lists
everyday. I think moving to a forum wouldn't solve our problem. I think our
LUG needs something else. But to solve it, we have to define it properly
before move.

 Please don't get me wrong, I don't want to stop anyone.This is the way of
open source anyway: If you want to do something, just do it. People would
follow your solutions when you do something noteworthy ;)

 I just wanted to share my opinions..

 Ciao,

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