[mythtv-users] Forum better than mailing list

[Carlos Fernandez Sanz]

Mailing lists allow people to build their own message repositories to
search.

As for diving up subjects, it's as easy as setting up different mailing
lists :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Berger" <dan at theidiots.org>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 19:29
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Forum better than mailing list


> This subject has been discussed before (the latest one being a couple of
> weeks ago). I am no player in the mythtv scene, I am not experienced, nor
am
> I an oldschool user. That said, my suggestion does not hold as much weight
> as someone else's.
>
> However, I would still like to express my view. I strongly believe that a
> forum is much more suited for what mythtv has become today. More users,
more
> problems, more hardware, more modules, more stuff, means more mail. With a
> forum, the subjects can be divided up, as reflex suggests. It just makes
> more sense for such a project and for a mailing list, which averages
200-300
> mails a day (most fo them being technical).
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> >[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of reflex
> >Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 7:15 AM
> >To: MythTV Users
> >Subject: [mythtv-users] Forum better than mailing list
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >There are thousands of questions about mythtv. Does it support
> >my card, can I have this feature, why does it not work with $Mydistro??
> >
> >Getting MythTV to work is not that easy. But the biggest
> >problem is the lack of proper documentation. It works for me
> >now more or less but I had to surf google all the time and
> >distiguish between unrelated info and outdated info.
> >
> >We could greatly improve the documentation section if you
> >would provide a Good Forum(tm) like phpBB and create several
> >sections like
> >
> >Installation probs:
> >-------------------
> >MythBackend
> >MythFrontend
> >MythTV Modules
> > MythTV
> >      XMLTV Fetching problem for non supported countries
> > MythMusic
> > MythDVD
> > etc.
> >
> >Feature Requests:
> >-----------------
> >Modules:
> > TV
> > DVD
> > etc.
> >
> >Hardware:
> >---------
> >PC's
> > pundit
> > etc.
> >TV-Cards
> > Hauppauge 250/250
> > etc.
> >
> >This would prevent questions to be posted over and over again
> >to the list. And in case of phpBB we would finally have a
> >really good searching function!
> >
> >
> >Just my 2 cents
> >
> >Have a nice X-mas
> >-- 
> >Clemens Wacha           wacha at gmx.ch           ICQ:12620492
> >
> >proudly running Debian/GNU Linux. See http://www.debian.org
> >
>
>


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