[mythtv-users] Forums

Mon May 17 10:40:02 EDT 2004

Ohh that's nice.  Would have helped me yesterday when an apt-get
dist-upgrade hosed everything on my box.

Johnny 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 7:06 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Forums

Hmm, When Henk said this just two days ago he bottom posted it - obviously
that didn't work ;)

Gossamer-Threads already has this functionality:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/

Unless you want something totaly different?

PS I bottom posted too - I upset both sides that way

Joe Byrne wrote:

>Does it have to be an either-or proposition?  Ideally couldn't we have a
>mailing list that's archived to a forum, and the forum provides a mechanism
>for sending messages?  Doesn't Deja News, er Google Groups, do this?
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jeff "Muddy" Waters" <mythtv at muddysmind.com>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 5:41 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Forums
>
>
>  
>
>>On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 11:18:54AM -0400, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Jeff "Muddy" Waters wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>p.s. before a flame war starts I'm not trying to replace the
>>>>>mail lists or the equally confusing wiki. It's just my feeble
>>>>>attempt to do what I can to help out since I don't program.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Since none of those that can and do program will use this
>>>>forum nor will most/all of the "power users" you're going to
>>>>end up with the blind leading the blind.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>That's been my experience in the past with other "forums". The
>>>technically savvy tend to prefer mailing lists or newsgroups
>>>(which IMO, are far, far easier to use and a much more
>>>efficient use of my time). If somebody wants to start a forum
>>>and fragment things even further, I certainly am not going to
>>>tell them they can't.
>>>      
>>>
>>My problems are with the highly inefficient use of space, CPU and time
>>that a mail list requires. It's far more efficient in my eyes to put all
>>things mythtv related (mythtv, lirc, ivtv) into one spot so if you so
>>choose to do a search it covers all areas. Also when I ask a question in
>>a mail list it's sometimes impossible to determine if you've had an
>>answer. However like I said it's all personal preference.
>>
>>Besides do you realize how much HD space the 2 years of this one mail
>>list alone soaked up? I never realized I had so much space until I
>>deleted it all but this months.
>>    
>>
...and in a group that archives and processes multi-gig video files this 
'argument' made me giggle ;)

PPS hey, at least it's not an <html> mail !