So I’m looking for answers from those frequent all three. When I’m stuck, I always search the forums first, and then post a new thread. The openSuse forums are great- I’ve always gotten great help very quickly. So why would someone need to subscribe to a mailing list? Even if I filter the notes to a folder, wouldn’t they be overwhelming? How would you find what you need? Same question for newsgroups, which really operate the same as a mailing list especially if you use Kmail or Thunderbird as your reader.
And in general, how do people manage to stay on top of all the questions coming in? Are there people in the community assigned to watch new posts, or do we all just do our part. I confess that I don’t have much time to just watch a forum, and only do so when I’m looking for the answer to my post. Am I shirking some responsibiltiy here?
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> And in general, how do people manage to stay on top of all the
> questions coming in? Are there people in the community assigned to
> watch new posts, or do we all just do our part. I confess that I don’t
> have much time to just watch a forum, and only do so when I’m looking
> for the answer to my post. Am I shirking some responsibiltiy here?
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> Thanks!
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rcbell;
Speaking only for myself and in the words of Paul McCartney and John Lennon,
“We’re all doing what we can”
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
> So I’m looking for answers from those frequent all three. When I’m
> stuck, I always search the forums first, and then post a new thread. The
> openSuse forums are great- I’ve always gotten great help very quickly.
> So why would someone need to subscribe to a mailing list? Even if I
> filter the notes to a folder, wouldn’t they be overwhelming? How would
> you find what you need? Same question for newsgroups, which really
> operate the same as a mailing list especially if you use Kmail or
> Thunderbird as your reader.
I use these forums from a newsgroup; generally I don’t need to search,
but if I do, I skim over and/or filter on the subject lines.
Same sort of thing with mailing lists - most mailing lists have archives
that can be searched in one way or another. In my case, I subscribe to
the opensuse-users list by using news.gmane.org (which provides a
newsgroup interface to the groups).
I find that on balance, it’s not necessary to search back into deep
history on problems I’m having, if I’m having a problem, it’s with
relatively current software and the topic is likely a topic of
conversation or has been in the last 30-60 days.