[libreoffice-users] Re: Forums??

On 02/02/2011 07:52 AM, Cia Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:21:25 +1300
> Jonathan Evatt <email@jonathanevatt.com> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if the LO team have any intention of setting up a forum?
> > It's a pretty simple thing to do these days, and surely it would make problem solving much 
> > easier than doing things via a mail list where every one ends up having to receive everyone 
> > else's emails just to find the answer to their own.
> >
> > Is a forum in the works? I highly recommend it.
>
> +1 to this idea. I just subscribed to the digest instead of individual
> emails, but the digest seems to be sending two of every message or
> something. I'm reading it in claws mail. There also isn't a 'link' or
> 'anchor' in the digest to be able to move to a specific message. One thing
> I do like is that if I reply, it's to a specific message such as this one,
> and not the entire digest. I hate it when people reply to one message in a
> digest and quote the whole thing. 
>
> However, one issue with forums is spamming, though there are some ways of
> dealing with that on an automated basis. It can be a hassle. An easy way
> to search the mail list would possibly serve the same purpose. 
>
> As it is, as I rarely even use LO or OO and traffic on the list is
> getting heavier I'll probably quit the digest too. (My preferred word
> processor for most things right now is AbiWord and neither LO or OO will
> format .abw files properly. However AbiWord does format odt files
> properly. Go figure. )

Why not just turn your nntp newsreader client to gmane.org and read/post
from there?
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/

Note: don't forget to use the -nomail option so that you don't keep
getting emails from the list.


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