Decided for the first time to go look at the forum and see if it looked useful. Can't decide. *Lots* of Qs with few responses. Anyway, signed up. Maybe I can make some time 'cause some of those look low-level enough for me to contribute a small amount. BUT, I have one aggravation that I wonder if it can be changed. I wanted to use the same e-mail there as I use n the lists. It wouldn't let me. And I don't see a way to change it once I'm registered. Did I miss something? Can my desire be accommodated? TIA -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060825/f0a914a4/attachment-0002.sig>
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:50 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:> Decided for the first time to go look at the forum and see if it looked > useful. Can't decide. *Lots* of Qs with few responses. >We need more people to browse the forums and answer questions there.> Anyway, signed up. Maybe I can make some time 'cause some of those look > low-level enough for me to contribute a small amount. > > BUT, I have one aggravation that I wonder if it can be changed. I wanted > to use the same e-mail there as I use n the lists. It wouldn't let me. > And I don't see a way to change it once I'm registered. > > Did I miss something? Can my desire be accommodated?Why would it not let you? We have nothing that ties the e-mails together from the lists to the forum, it should have let you register with it. If you send me the info off list (username, old address, new address), I will fix you up. (Once you have registered, e-mail can not be changed by the user.) Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060825/9be74df6/attachment-0002.sig>
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:50 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Decided for the first time to go look at the forum and see if it looked > > useful. Can't decide. *Lots* of Qs with few responses. > > We need more people to browse the forums and answer questions there.I always wondered why Fedora split the group of users between 2 sources. Was it to keep the signal-to-noise ratio acceptable on the mailinglists or just because some type of people would otherwise be left out because mailinglists do not appeal to them. If we could merge mailinglists and forums (by presenting the mailinglist in a forum-like view) and use the forum comment interface to send mails to a mailinglist, then both groups would be merged instead of seperated. But of course that would mean destroying the content available in the current forums. Something that should have been investigated before setting up forums ? And I'm not sure if any software exists that would allow this. Doesn't seem that hard to write though... Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
> > > You mean like this: > > > http://www.centos.org/search.php > > > Yes, thank you. That's ideal. > > I would just add that www.centos.org could have a direct > Search on the front page - listen, this is just my opinion. I > have used the site for a while, but have never noticed the > Search link. It is not a problem on the page, it's a problemJust to add my voice to the "less than uber" user crowd. I missed it until someone pointed it out. It blends in nicely with the google ads at the top. Alex Palenschat