[gobolinux-users] Gobolinux Forum?

[Michael Homer]

On 5/25/07, molfar <molfar.ua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This time, i'd like to raise the question of online communication
> among gobo-supporters.
> IMHO, mailing list tech is a quite rudimentary monster from the past.
> It was prominent and acceptable feature in early Usenet and Web 0.x
> era but today it's just redundant. Moreover, this system is
> susceptible to spam by it's core design and I see no particular
> advantages to its utilization.
http://www.pakistanopensource.org/goboforum/
As you can see, it wasn't very well-used, and it doesn't seem to be
linked from the website any more. I think the reasons that there isn't
a forum have been gone over pretty thoroughly in the past every time
the subject came up; chiefly, because nobody would read it, and
because fragmentation is bad.

If you want a forum or other interface, you can pick the one that
suits you best:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
Possibly they should be pushed harder, there don't seem to be links to
them from the website. There's a variety of interfaces and RSS there.

I am not as opposed to a forum as some here, but I don't think it's
such a good idea when there isn't enough of a user base to have there
be people there all the time - at least with email it's a "push"
scenario, rather than having to seek it out manually. If it's
infrequently-visited people will have unrealistic expectations for
responses, and that doesn't reflect well.
-Michael