Jeff Sadowski wrote:
I like the idea of a forum. A forum is a much more organized idea and a
moderator to remove uneeded profanity. A mailing list is good too and
works much the same way a forum does today but I still think nothing
beats a good forum with moderation. It seems to me that the majority of
the posters against the forum where just profane and had no logical
reason for disliking the forum. That in fact add to my likes for a
forum. You can also edit what you typed in a good forum and try to make
better before someone reads it. But if the authors are so against it I'm
not gonna tell them what to do. I'm sure they could find a few that feel
obligated to help and who they trust that could take the job of
moderation if they asked.
This list, too, is moderated, though only for posts by non-list-members.
I think it also has some spam and virus protections on it. Anyway,
there is very little (or, actually, almost no) spam, viruses, or
anything else unpleasant here so I don't see the use of additional
moderation.
Anyway, I'm sure anybody (read: you or Chris or someone who has an
interest in it) could create a "Wireshark users" forum just about
anywhere they want (and even announce it here); that way people who like
a forum could use it and the rest of us could continue to use the
mailing lists. Who knows, maybe if it proved popular enough it could be
moved to wireshark.org (though that might be a challenge as even this
list seems to be averaging less than 5 posts a day).
-J
On 10/2/06, *Suresh Balabrahman* <bsuresh1976@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:bsuresh1976@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Mialing list is cool.
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] What about a Wireshark forum?
Chris Swinney wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know there is this support list but what about running a nice web
> forum for Wireshark and its various intricacies. It would turn into a
> much better resource that an archive of indiscreet posting.
>
> I know that mail list are a good old hang over from the geek days
past,
> but wouldn't it be better to get access to a more usable, better
> accessible support resources that could then be linked to the WiKi
> pages.
This was proposed a few months ago, see the thread starting here:
http://ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200605/msg00194.html
<http://ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200605/msg00194.html>
(To save you some time reading, most of the responders disliked the
idea, some pretty strongly.)
