[gmx-users] How about gmx-forum?

[David]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 22:04, Anton Feenstra wrote:
> Semen Esilevsky wrote:
> 
> > Probably this message is a kind of off-topic, but...
> > Reading today's postings in this mailing list I
> > understood that it is much more convenient to browse
> > the information on forums then on mailing lists.
> > Probably it is justified to make gmx web-based forum
> > on the gormacs.org or somewhere? It will attract new
> > users and will make communication much more structured
> > and convenient.
> 
> Sorry for perhaps being dense, but what would be the advantage of
> a forum over a list & archives?

The advantage is that you have all the information directly in a
"readable" format in your web browser, in particular when you have an
advanced search engine. The disadvantage is that  it takes more effort
to go to the forum, and as a result people don't do it...

What does show up is many questions that are in the FAQ, or should be in
the FAQ.


-- 
David.
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