Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Searching mailing list/forum

["ronnie sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Full ACK
My final statement on forums from a personal pov.


Feel free to set up as many forums as you want.   I am sure
Gerald can be asked to add a link from the website to your forum.
As is obvious from the responses and lack of interest in the developer
community it does appear very unlikely that there will be much interest
from developers to participate.



Personally I have opinions about the usefulness of forums compared to
using a mailinglist  and personally find it unlikely that I would
spend any time on non-mailinglist discussions. I happen to agree with
one of the previous pov's that were expressed : forums suck.


If you want a forum, go ahead and create one.  There are probably
many many sites that offer users to set up and manage any kind of
forums. Try one of those and ask Gerald to link to it.

On 10/6/06, Anders Broman (AL/EAB) <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
To me it looks like it boils down to
- None of the maintainers of Wireshark are interested in seting up a
forum (or participate in one)...
As noted before feel free to set one up.

BR
Anders

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] On Behalf Of Chris
Swinney
Sent: den 6 oktober 2006 11:06
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Searching mailing list?

This somewhat goes back to the idea of a user forum I spoke of. Newer
users especially will find the collation of relevant queries that are
fully searchable in one location via a web interface simpler to navigate
than mailing lists. The Wiki is excellent, but this is not the place to
post hundreds of queries.

I'm not saying that mailing lists are wrong, I have grown up with
various forms of electronic communication from text interface though to
what we have now. I personally find a GUI simpler to use that a CLI.


Thanks,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Morriss [mailto:jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 October 2006 04:52
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Searching mailing list?



Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> Did you read my question? That is what I tried I guess I chose an
> unanswered question though going on the fact of how my other question
> went. Is there a way to just query the mailing lis alone though is
> more the question.

Yes I read your question and I answered with how _I_ do what you wanted
to do (in case it helped).  I personally don't see the need to limit my
searches to just the mailing lists (especially when the response from
Google is basically instantaneous; it's not like searching the whole
site takes longer).  If I am only interested in the mailing lists, I can

always just skip over the non-mailing list responses from Google.

Maybe Google has a way to limit responses to a part of the site, I never

tried.

> On 10/5/06, Jeff Morriss < jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Jeff Sadowski wrote:
>>> Lots of the mailing lists I'm familiar with have a search option
>>> on the web interface. I don't see it on this mailing lists web
interface.
>>> How would I search the repositories for questions people have asked;
>>> that might already be answered? I searched for
>>> "searching through mailing lists" on google nothing seamed relevant.
>> When I'm looking for something in Ethereal/Wireshark's mailing list
>> archives, I tend to just Google for:
>>
>> <topic I'm looking for> site://wireshark.org
>>
>> Google's faster than any local-to-the-site search engine, and I'm
>> already well accustomed to its interface, so...


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