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Posted by Osiris on 12/13/06 08:22
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:34:01 -0000, Jim Logajan <JamesL@Lugoj.com>
wrote:
>nobody@nowhere.invalid (Peter Boosten) wrote:
>> Osiris <nono@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> time for a Joomla newsgroup !
>>> support the initiative on news.groups and nl.newsgroups.
>>>
>>> search there with keyword "joomla" and give your opinion, with solid
>>> arguments.
>>
>> What's wrong with their forum?
>>
>> http://forum.joomla.org/
>
>It appears to be the rough equivalent of a moderated Usenet forum, since
>the owner/operator of the web forum can edit posts, remove posts, or
>blacklist posters.
>
>An unmoderated Usenet forum would be operating with a different set of
>ground rules that provides almost no centralized editorial control of
>content.
>
>The two types of forums would therefore appear to have some complementary
>aspects (assuming the Usenet group is kept unmoderated) and some
>competitive aspects. E.g: Usenet group too "noisy" - go to the Joomla.org
>forum; Joomla.org forum too restrictive - go to the Usenet newsgroup.
Of course, the choice between the two solutions is a false dilemma.
The situation is not one of XOR, but of AND, for the programmers
amongst us.
A feature of a forum is, e.g. that it can be extremely difficult to
get in: yesterday I spent about 15 minutes to get into joomla.org
forum. Really ! and I'm no novice on the WWW !
The sea of id's and passwords I have for all the forums I have been
to, you would not believe. I regularly forget one... nuisance, and the
veru faint smell of elitism...
Probably a forum is good for a smaller group of developers, but the
regular user, encountering a problem, wants the speed and prliferation
of Usenet.
I think Usenet can contribute significantly in the spreading of the
Word, by just being there and being easy to find.
Also the centralization of the diiscussions on Usenet, versus the
miriad of Joomla forums (every Tom, Dick and Harry....), would be
beneficial.
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