["Harvey, James B." <Jim.Harvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest there is enough traffic here to start a Usenet newsgroup.   

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> From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> jrhendri@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 7:38 AM
> To: Ethereal user support
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Replacing Mailing-List by Forum !!
> 
> My 2 cents: (not that you asked :-)
> 
> There are those who do not want to actively visit forums but 
> would rather get email sent to them. 
> As far as search capabilities, there are many sites that 
> maintain searchable mailing list archives if searching 
> through your email is not desired.
> 
> Most <whatever>-users lists do tend to be high volume and 
> most (novice) questions would have been resolved either by 
> (my prioritization):
> 1 - figuring it out on your own (if I figure something out, I 
> have learned it *far* better than if someone tells me)
> 2 - reading the documentation / source code (refer also to #1)
> 3 - search the Internet (including mailing list archives)
> 
> Not to be a wet blanket for your idea, but there are things 
> that work well on discussion forums (when people have time to 
> use a browser and keep checking back or configure it to email 
> them for replies to their posts). I don't happen to think 
> that a high-volume list is one of them.
> I find it easier to scan the headers occasionally to see if 
> there is a pearl among them, and search my own email (faster 
> than Internet
> searches) when looking for messages related to a very specific thing.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas Stein <thoste@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, May 19, 2006 7:07 am
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] Replacing Mailing-List by Forum !!
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> > I would urgently suggest to replace the Mailing-List by a 
> > forum/bulletin board.
> > Mailing-lists were a good idea in the good old days of internet 10 
> > years ago.
> > But now forums are a better way to search, handle and post news and 
> > questions.
> > The traffic in this Mailing-List is much to high, the 
> search features 
> > are very unconvenient.
> > 
> > So why not moving to a forum at forum.openvpn.net ? Software is 
> > available for free.
> > Nearly all other software communities introduce forums.
> > 
> > 
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