[digiKam-users] why do I rejoin Digikam MailMan list?

[Stuart T Rogers]

I agree, I like the mailing list and the fact that we get responses from 
the developers on a regular basis. I also think that the mailing list 
gets better requests for information than many forums because people 
stop and think before posting a question because they know everyone on 
the list will see their update.

A forum has to be policed and that takes work which the developers 
cannot spend time on, it is also far more open to abuse and spam.

Stuart

On 18/01/2022 08:53, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> I am very much against using a forum. They are slower and take more 
> effort to read.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 18/01/2022 08:13, Jack Marxer wrote:
>> I want to thank the digiKam developers for all the work they have done 
>> in developing and maintaining such a wonderful program!
>>
>> I also would like to use a forum, but I don't know if there is someone 
>> who would be willing to develop and maintain it.
>> Jack Marxer
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:03 AM Ty Mayn <tyrus.mayn at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:tyrus.mayn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>       After study of the public viewable archives I see that discussion
>>     is more immediate on this oldfashioned Mailman listservice. Its
>>     clear to me that it is small but has some responsive leaders with
>>     knowledge.
>>          Meanwhile the similarly named digikam Forum hosted by kde is
>>     small and more inactive. After posting there this January I resorted
>>     to answering my own posting just to be partially useful
>>     https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=256
>>     <https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=256>
>>           The energy on this list service deserves better tools.
>>     https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/
>>     <https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/>
>>     The archive has at least 17 years of useful knowledge zipped into
>>     204 separate months that no newcomer (or even old user)will easily
>>     search.
>>          Has anyone ever prepared and circulated a consolidated archive
>>     ready for global search?
>>       Every posting member has their  participating email exposed to
>>     weak masking that only replaces @ with "at"  while the  forum tools
>>     at KDE have good authentication and member shelter.
>>          Am I the only one to have spoken on this issue? I would have to
>>     search the archives to know but I suppose each current member has a
>>     view and every pattern has inertia.  Please accept this as a
>>     positive input on a good thing
>>     Ty Mayn
>>
>>
> 
> 

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