CAcert System Admins discussion list

[Daniel Black <daniel AT cacert.org>]

On Friday 13 March 2009 00:57:39 Wytze van der Raay wrote:
> 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.
>
good point.

> 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.
also good point.

> 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).

anything that support both well? like a archive display that shows a bit of 
contents. I'm not a big forum user anywhere so I miss what aspects of forums 
are appealing for people. I note in sympa's archives at least you have the 
immediate option of reply.

on my todo list https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=686. want to get more ;
lists on to sympa before moving engaging the public achives.

or alternately let the user community split and maintain their own support. 
At 
least that way the non-emailist people actually get supported.

> > So does anyone want to setup a web forum site?
> >
anyone?

> > 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.
>
probably, still wanted confirmation. There was a volunteer hosting company on 
the board list recently too AFAIK.

Daniel