[mythtv-users] Forums??

[Lev Pertsov]

I'm a newbie (at MythTV) but I'm ambivalent about forums. The only great feature that forums provide is the ability to have static context that is searchable. MythTV comes close with the mailing list archives on the web site (which is great) but you can't easily search them for questions/answers that I'm sure has been asked a million times before. So instead of asking the same questions you can just do a couple of searches and come up with answers to 99% of your questions. 

How hard is it to add search to the mailing list archives?

P.S.
As an avid photog I can highly recommend interface of www.photo.net community forums

-----Original Message-----
From: James Fidell [mailto:james at cloud9.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 6:31 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Forums??


Quoting Kevin Thorwesten (kevthor at shaw.ca):

> If someone is going to help they are going to help. If they will take their
> time to respond to an email why would they not respond to a forum post?

Because it takes far more time and is clumsy compared to responding to an
email.

> If there is no mailing list and forums only, the experienced users
> will still log on to the forums to check the posts as they log on to
> their email to check their emails. I dont see any difference there.

I do not read web-based forums.  I'd rather go without.  Reading and
replying to email is just far more efficient (not to mention all sorts
of other benefits it has).

James
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