On Tue, January 20, 2009 14:02, Brian McKee wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Perl <thp at gpodder.org> wrote: >> what do you think of adding a forum in addition to having the >> development mailing list. Do you think a forum would help users that >> are not familiar with mailing lists? I'm happy to read your opinion! > > I think some people are forum people and some people are email people. > > Unfortunately in my experience the people that have answers are email > people > and the people that have questions are forums people. That's why I ask on > the > mailing list first :-) > > If there was some way to use a forum software that autoposted both ways? > The > problem of course is you tend to split the people that can answer between > the > two. > > I do think forums tend to be preferred by some, and since gpodder is > obviously > trying to appeal to more than just kernel hackers, a forum may well be > welcomed > by some. > > I dunno if that helped any - but I expressed an opinion :-) > > Brian I could not agree more :) nick