On Feb 18, 2008 12:35 PM, L. Rahyen research@science.su wrote:
Of course, there is some people who like forums. If we decide to createforum specifically for them, it is important to have possibility to subscribe for receiving all (full) messages from the forum to e-mail with direct link to reply page for corresponding message, and ability to login permanently without stupid timeout (using cookies). In fact there is some forums like this (unfortunately, all of them are unrelated to WINE) and they are pretty usable (however, personally I like mailing lists more, and didn't used forums for a long time). Of course, if there is no volunteer(s) to create and support such forum - then wine-users is enough I think.
In my experience, the 'older' crowd prefers newsgroups, but 'younger' people prefer message boards. Similar to how more advanced users prefer CLI, but inexperienced/novices use GUI. It seems to me we're trying to help the gui type of person, and a message board would be an easier way to do this, IMHO.
-Austin