[tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

> As I said, I'm sure Bill Gates said leave those toy phones to Nokia, RIM and
> Apple. Google seem to have been smarter. As mobile and web technologies take
> over I can see much harder times ahead for anyone dependent on local
> dependencies.

Those reliant of distant web servers without no knowledge of data
security employed by service providers are being naive. At least
retrieved data onto a local hard disk drive allows data to be in more
tangible control.

> On 04/18/2011 03:11 PM, RGB ES wrote:
> > Well, even if I'd said that the ancient forums vs mailing lists war
> > was not the point but *what people use*, the forums vs. mailing lists
> > useless fight came again...
> > At first I was tempted to refer how the English forums have near 200
> > new message each day and talk about the madness it would be to receive
> > near 200 mails each day. I was tempted to talk about how I'm giving
> > on-line support to users since a long time (I started using computers
> > more than 25 years ago) and justify the fact that I know quite well
> > the advantages and disadvantages of every possible communication
> > system in use for the last 20 years... Many things...
> > But I'm giving up.
> > Have a nice day!
> > And don't worry to answer me, I'm unsubscribing from the mailing list.
> I do agree that, whatever their limitations, forums are the discussion =
>
> platform of the masses and LibreOffice needs to form a community that =
>
> includes the non-geek populace if it is to become the premier version of =

Not sure that a web forum suddenly makes the use of LO more appealing
to "non-geeks"

What's wrong with reading mailing list messages in digest mode and
going to the searchable archive as and when appropriate.

Has the been a poll on mailing list against forum?

Regardless of the result, "non-geeks" should be encouraged to
understand the benefits of a mailing list, similarly to explaining LO
compared to m$o...

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