[CUWiN-Dev] fyi: wireless wiki abuse

[Christian D]

Same here: I much prefer email lists! I have no time to get on line
for "real time" forums... I must confess my home Internet is around
5kbps, and is OK for email, but I have to drive to a hotspot to do
some real surfing.

Similar problem with "webmail"... A waste of bandwidth...

Keep up the good work, guys!

Back to lurking...

Christian D



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Haudy Kazemi" <kaze0010 at umn.edu>
To: "David Young" <dyoung at pobox.com>; "CUWiN Development" <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 13:45
Subject: Re: [CUWiN-Dev] fyi: wireless wiki abuse


> >The discussion forums can also go.  The discussion forums are so
> >nearly empty, one person is moved to write on them, "The postings
here
> >seem rather spotty. I'm wondering if this means that the interest
in
> >muniwireless is losing steam...  and losing steam because if
price
> >cutting by SBC."  Sean responds, "It is likely that responses and
> >activity in this forum have dropped because CUWIN is focusing
their
> >energy on their software development and not because the
municipal
> >wireless movement is dying."  Actually, the activity drops
because the
> >web discussion forums are perfectly redundant with the mailing
lists;
> >developers scarcely read them.  My recommendation: make the right
sidebar
> >refer readers to our mailing lists and archives, and ditch the
forums.
>
> I prefer mailing lists + searchable archives instead of forums.
For cases
> where forums are desired, I like forums to have mail2forum and
forum2mail
> gateways so that people can follow and respond to forum threads
either via
> email or via a website.  I know there are (free) gateway addons
for the
> phpBB forum.  Also, rather than actually removing the (minimally
used)
> forum, I'd recommend disabling any additional postings and suggest
that
> people go to the mailing list instead.  My opinion is that the
posts in the
> forum should remain online, and not be directed to the bit bucket
(digital
> dustbin).  (Actually I hold that opinion about most online
material, as I
> really dislike broken URLs and references to materials once
available but
> no longer available online).
>
> -Haudy Kazemi
>
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