<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/11/11 Martin (KDE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kde@fahrendorf.de">kde@fahrendorf.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><div class="im">
> The key words are "the only threads or forums you're interested in".<br>
> With a mailing-list, I receive everything in my mailbox, and I don't<br>
> want 90% of them.<br>
<br>
</div><br>I see this as an advantage. I don't read every mail but in many of them<br>
I take a short look and sometimes it is interesting an I continue to<br>
read. With this I get new information or a point where I can help<br>
others. This leads to sometimes very informative and knowledgeable<br>
discussions.<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
<div class="im"><br><br></div></blockquote><div>I understand your point.<br>But I'm interested in too many different things to be able to scan even quickly everything that comes in. <br>As communities grow, they generate more and more traffic and that makes it difficult for everybody to read/follow everything. <br>
<br>My feeling is that mailing-list are well suited to not too big groups, exchanging information related to the "current and now" (I'm not sure I explain this accurately, but english is not my native language). As the community grows, with people having different interests, and wanting to search/read/comment past answers and discussions, and having access to the common knowledge, I think the advantages of a forum become proeminent.<br>
<br>Also people ask technical questions and request for help on the FB Digikam page too, as if it were a forum. But unlike a forum, the answers are not historized and organized properly, thus they are lost for future users.<br>
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