CAcert System Admins discussion list

[Wytze van der Raay <wytze AT deboca.net>]

On 03/11/2009 02:01 PM, Daniel Black wrote:
> A member has quite rightly pointed out that web forums are more useful and 
> accessible in some ways than email lists.
> 
> While some may disagree that its not as useful for them that others have a 
> large barrier to using a cacert-support email list.

Some people prefer web forums, while other people prefer email lists.
Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and it seems hard to
please everybody. Why not do both? Well, it will split the user community
in two disjunct parts, as very few people will bother to keep up with
both a forum and an email list on the same topic. On the other hand,
if you stick to a single method you will likely miss out on the users
which only want to deal with the other method. Perhaps the best you can
do is to stick to a single method but provide it with features that
mimic the other method in part (e.g. provide easily accessible and
properly searchable archives for an email list).

> Popular sites like http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php or ;
> http://forums.devnetwork.net/ certainly show how a community can be ;
> developed.

Yes, pretty impressive examples. In fact, this amount of traffic would
not be practical to handle with email lists.

> So does anyone want to setup a web forum site?
> 
> Is there infrastructure available anywhere?

Yet another virtual machine could probably set up for it,
but I have no idea how much capacity you'd need for that.

> (and I haven't got board approval yet so this isn't a definite)

:-)

Regards,
-- wytze

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