Mike Hearn wrote:
Obviously _some_ people post to wine-users, but judging from other projects I'd expect there to be a lot of others who don't, simply because they're not comfortable with mailing lists as an interface.
When I first tried Wine many a year ago, it didn't work.
I saw there was a mailing list, but it required me to subscribe, which very much sounded like: 1.) You'll get a whole lot of stuff in your inbox every day that you don't care about. 2.) You'll expose your name and address to spammers worldwide.
Didn't sound like a good deal, so I thought what the heck and threw Wine in the wastebin.
(I've come back since, but you can't expect everyone to be as stubborn as I am..)
The amount of traffic experienced by sites like ubuntuforums.org vs their -user lists is a fairly compelling piece of evidence, I'd say.
Yay.
But I so very much dislike the notion of splitting the user base into 'the mailing list people' and 'the forum people'.
I hope we can find a better solution, one that is both easily accessible to newcomers but can also deliver content directly to the inboxes of those that have an interest in Wine itself.