[Typo3] Some feedback to TYPO3 marketeers

[Alex Heizer]

Hi Michael,


Michael Scharkow wrote:

>>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.
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>Well, I doubt we're comparing the same things here, because considering 
>goals, target users and complexity, we should look at apache.org, 
>zope.org, plone.org none of which have a forum but only lists (and news 
>via gmane).
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I agree we're not comparing the same things. I've tried to find things 
on apache.org and, as an end-user the lists are essentially useless. 
Compared to the CPanel forum, our datacenter forum, linuxquestions.org 
forum, etc., when I need a question answered like "why does CPanel, by 
default, have xxxx setting enabled?", it's about 100 times easier to 
visit a website and click the Search button than it is to sign up for a 
news group, subscribe to it with my news reader or T-bird, let it 
download the 50,000 headers from a newsgroup like the T3-English list, 
then search however it's appropriate with the newsreader. It depends on 
the target audience. Sometimes I want to follow an entire project, like 
the T3 English list, sometimes I want to know I can look up an answer 
from my friend's computer once or twice a year as I help them set up 
something.

>I do tend to think that web forums attract a different kind of audience 
>then mailing lists/newgroups. The last time I checked the non-official 
>German forum, the quality of the content was vastly inferior to our 
>lists. An there is probably a reason why Linux kernel developers do not 
>communicate via a web forum...
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Likewise, there is probably a reason most "ordinary" users prefer 
forums. ;) Forums also allow you to put threads into categories. As it 
is now, to add a category to a mailing list you need to add  a new list.

Alex