On 4/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy White</b> <<a href="mailto:jwhite@codeweavers.com">jwhite@codeweavers.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Okay, so I've followed this thread, and I have<br>a range of thoughts and what I think is a simple solution.</blockquote><div><br>mod +1: Informative<br></div><br>I'm just going to agree with the whole post since you usually don't hear from people who agree.
<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Third, I think the biggest problem is that there are 2 places <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
to go for help. The wine-users mailing list, and the<br>legacy usenet newsgroup.</blockquote><div><br>Yup. Definitely a problem. Once in a while I browse around on the old newsgroup, wine-users and I've also looked at the third-party online forums when it was around. Basically I noticed there's a ton of people out there willing to help others, but the brains seem to be disconnected. I've seen the same question appear in different forums multiple times. There's a few masochists who read all those forums and respond to the same questions on each.
<br><br>I really think there's two solutions:<br>1. Discard wine-users and the c.e.m.w. newsgroup and move strictly to our own web forum.<br>2. Get the old mail-news gateway in place and refer people to <a href="http://groups.google.com">
groups.google.com</a> for their web viewing pleasure.<br><br>#1 doesn't seem viable. #2 will just collect a bunch of people whining about the user interface (sorry Mike, I know you like your avatars), but there's no possible web interface that could make everyone happy.
<br><br>Our forums page does suck though.<br><br>-Brian<br></div><br></div>