[Typo3] Some feedback to TYPO3 marketeers

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Heiner,


> > If your argumentation against forums was true, the majority of
> > online communities would use newsgroups instead of forums. This,
> > however is not the case.
>
> Really?  Do you have any numbers?

Easily. To compare apples to apples, get a list of CMS from cmsmatrix
and see how many of them have forums and how many have newsgroups.
You'll find some that have _both_ (which is exactly what I am rooting
for) but the number of those that have newsgroups but no forum will be
very small.

> > I am more concerned with being able to read the same stuff on all
> > 5 computers that I have in different places without having to
> > configure newsreaders everywhere, and an online forum would give
> > me such a possibility. Right now I am using GMail.
>
> Well, we see, that this depends a lot on how one is working.  I'm
> subscribed to several mailinglists and I'm _very_ glad, that these
> are no online forums.  Now I have all of them in one place and I'm
> not forced to visit several websites to stay uptodate.

True, that's why I am not saying "let's scrap" newsgroups. I am saying
"let's build a forum that would sync to them".

> And, as Michael already mentioned, I have the messages right at
> hand, even when I'm offline.

I am never offline, so I don't care for that.

> I can't understand the problem about searching posts:  We have a
> list-archive that _is_ searchable.

How about the fact that, say, install-linux only has the stuff
starting Jan 2005? (Last time I checked).

> Unfortunately, there is no working T3 extension that can be used as
> a mailinglist archive ;-(

And that's probably the key to the problem.

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Dimitri Tarassenko