why no forums?

[John Seth]

green_man wrote:
> 
> John Seth wrote, On 05/27/05 5:22 PM:
> 
>> I've been pondering that myself in some respects.  I keep some of the 
>> messages from the list and could archive them to the web, but it's not 
>> a true mailing list archive.
>>
>> I have mailman running on my system archiving another mailing list, 
>> which is handy and easier to manage.  Since the mailinglist runs 
>> majordomo, I'm not sure if there's an easy program I can run to make 
>> archives of email posted to the list.  I know there's one called 
>> Majorcool, though, I believe both the web gui and the majordomo 
>> software have to be on the same machine for it to work.
>>
>> I can't archive old msg's other than the one's I've kept, but if 
>> someone else knows how to grab incoming email and archive it for web 
>> perusal, I'll gladly redirect my incoming NFLUG email into that archive.
>>
>> AS far as forums and email, yes... there will always be two resources 
>> in such situations.  Then again, looking at it from another 
>> perspective, there's hundreds of thousands of resources now, what's 
>> one more? lol. Personally, I like email lists since I can often get 
>> faster responses to issues I have.  On the other hand, I like forums 
>> cuz they don't fill up my inbox.  There's two sides to every story, 
>> and I have no intention of interfering or causing issues with the 
>> mailing list.  I think I've been a member for around 3-4 years now, 
>> it's a great place with great people.
>>
>> --  Tony Evans
>>
>>
> Tony - Here is a qoute from Darin's post of 05/10/05, entitled "out of 
> the office".
> 
> [BEGIN QUOTE]
> 
>>
>> when i get back i'll be moving the site and email list to a dedicated 
>> server. the plan is to migrate from majordomo to mailman and 
>> eventually use mamboserver or one of the nukes to manage the sites 
>> content and hand that off to someone, any volunteers. 
> 
> 
>> Darin Perusich
>> Unix Systems Administrator
>> Cognigen Corp.
>> darinper at cognigencorp.com
> 
> 
> [END QUOTE]
> 
> I am no mail admin or web admin, but it sounds to me like you might have 
> a start on what Darin hopes to accomplish. ;-)
> Darin said he would return JUNE 8th. I think you should contact him.
> 
> Regarding the site, I think it's great to have an additional resource 
> available. I generally have quicker and more useful responses from the 
> NFLUG list than from any of the several user forums I'm in, but judging 
> by the traffic volume of the NFLUG list, it would allow us to share the 
> wealth of knowledge and experience that is NFLUG with Linux users 
> through out the web. One thing that comes immediately to mind is the 
> "Mozilla Questions" messages lately. I find that replies are slower to 
> come in the Mozillazine forums than they are in the Knoppix forums, 
> though I bet there are more people that use Gecko based browsers than 
> there are that use Knoppix.
> 
> I'm going to start collecting links to all the live linux CD's I've 
> tested out, to submit to the site. I think that live linux is a great 
> painless way to expose Windows users, and will be one of the paths to 
> the "Great Linux Desktop Migration" to come.
> 

Hmmm... You've got one volunteer here who is willing to help in any way 
he can. The question that comes to mind is, should Darrin update the 
NFLUG.org website to another dedicated server, setup Mambo, or another 
CMS, update to Mailman, etc... will there be a charge to whomever he 
hands the site over to for hosting if he steps down or away ? I'm sure 
there are a number of us who can host and willing to do so for free, 
myself included.

I already have Mailman up and running, and I think with some minor 
tinkering I could get it to use NFLUG.com or .org.  If the general list 
wanted, and Darrin wanted to do so, simply redirect NFLUG.org to my box 
and I could manage DNS to point to the .com site.

In the NFLUG.com website, I have attempted to update the Web Links 
section with all the active distro's of linux I could find, major 
distro's and mini distro's, ie: live cd's/floppy distro's.  I'm sure 
there are more, so feel free to update that list too... any registered 
member can suggest news, links, downloads, etc.  If members can't do 
something and feel it would be beneficial, just let me know.

Just ideas to toss around...

- Tony