Date:  Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:28:57 +0000
From:  Andy Hill <andy (at mark) information-online.co.uk>
Subject:  [coba-e:11034] Re: Request
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Jeff W. Keller wrote:
> I thought the forum was fantastic because of the ease of searching for
> answers and getting caught up on past topics.  The wiki was helpful too
> and I'd love to see it gain traction.  
>
> I would suspect that I'm part of the silent majority of BQ users who
> employ the software in production environments, don't actively
> participate in the forums (but read all posting religiously) and say a
> silent prayer of thanks every day to those who have worked hard to keep
> this project going. 
>
> I'd love to see Don's forum and wiki flourish.
>
> JK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Zimmer [mailto:dwz (at mark) usa.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:14 AM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:11030] Re: Request
>
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>> I would love adding to a wiki or KB all the howto's, that are marked 
>> as such, on my 11k coba-e maillist message database (wich i love). I 
>> wonder how many good topics there are on the coba-j one...
>>
>> On a side note: Wasnt there a forum already up, showing all the coba-e
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>> topics? I recall that, gotta look that up.
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>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have had a BQ Wiki running for almost 2 years at
> http://www.bqwiki.org. It was never linked it in to the main BQ site (I
> did ask) and no one uses it except to post Viagra ads.
>
> I also have a forum set up at http://www.bqforum.org that was archiving
> by thread all the posts to this list. Again, it seemed like no one was
> using it. When I ran into some stubborn problems with the Mail2Forum
> software I eventually gave up because I didn't think anyone really cared
> anyway.
>
> If I saw that the Wiki was being actively used I would try to get the
> forum working again.
>
> Don 
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I too would agree with JK.

As another of the silent majority, of readers bur seldom writers, I 
found the Wiki and Forum very useful.

It's only due to very smooth running of our few BQ servers recently that 
I didn't realise that the forum wasn't still archiving list messages.

Hope it can keep going.


Andy Hill