[TYPO3-english] Why there is not an " official " online Forum for TYPO3 ?

[Ries van Twisk]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Michael Stucki wrote:

> Hi Ries,
>
>>> Exactly. The synchronisation between mailing lists and newsgroup  
>>> server
>>> works perfect,
>>
>> Hummmm this doesn't works perfect actually...
>> a couple of weeks ago the dutch mailing list had problems
>> where the newgroups worked ok and both systems where not synced  
>> correctly.
>
> I'm aware of that problem (I was the one who fixed it).
>
> For some reason, the configuration of one mailing list was broken and
> caused the synchronization to stop. Therefore, every list after that  
> (in
> alphabetical order) was not synchronized:
>
> - typo3-dev => OK
> - typo3-german => OK
> - typo3-english => OK
> - ...
> - broken list => stop
> - ...
> - typo3-ug-dutch => FAIL
> - typo3-ug-* => FAIL
>
> And many more lists, of course.
>
> However, after I found the reason for that problem some weeks ago, the
> error should be gone now. (Isn't it?)
>
>> We also had last year lot's of problems with bounces to
>> TYPO3-english.
>
> I'm not aware of this. Still the case?

No, it seems to be fine now... Just quite in Dutch ML... :)

>
>> I was also under the impression (a couple of years ago)
>> that the people from punkt didn't like mailinglist for the reason
>> of traffic to there servers, same as with TER.
>> Wouldn't you think they will not be happy with a active forum?
>
> Sure there is a lot of traffic on the mailing list server, but Digital
> District (who are currently hosting the server) have never contacted  
> us
> because of traffic getting too high.
>
>> I don't want to sounds negative here, I am all for good  
>> communications,
>> but I just remember these cases...
>
> Always! :-) I'm open for critism if there is anything that needs to be
> fixed. However, it seems to me the system is working perfect since my
> latest fix...
>
yes it works fine now..... Thanks for the time, fixes and support on  
this!


IMHO I think if a forum needs to be created just use one of the  
standard well
know forums. To get itms up and running in a reasonable time frame.

Ries