[mythtv-users] New forum to discuss MythTV

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Jun 7 23:39:08 UTC 2007


Paul Shields wrote:

> Starting a forum is really hard work. I've done a few in my time (one  
> or two are quite popular), but getting the first wave in is extremely  
> difficult.
> 
> I'd cut the guy some slack. Not everyone is au fait with mailing  
> lists, and there are some very useful features that are associated  
> with web-based forums. Unfortunately, he's going about it the wrong  
> way - having to subscribe to view content is a big no-no. The problem  
> for this person is that MythTV is still a very geeky product, there  
> is already a popular web-base forum called mythtvtalk, and I really  
> doubt such a relatively small subject matter could sustain another  
> forum.  Good luck to him though. I don't see anything sinister in it,  
> and any on-line forum needs ads to help sustain it - they're often  
> not cheap to maintain.

You make some good points, but the main rule of just about anything is
"know your audience". Starting such a forum cold, without consulting the
possible users thereof, just seems odd to me.

Not having any sort of email contact in the whois database, even a
proxied one, is something I'd never run into, though it might be common.
I understand that the whois data is used by a lot of spammers, but there
still should be *some* way to contact the domain admins, other than a
telephone number.

But then again MythTV users tend to be an "odd" bunch anyway :-)

BEWW


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