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Subject:Re: Blogs for questions, blogs for answers From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:19:26 -0700 (PDT)
Blogs are a good way to get given credit for having an
answer.
Unfortunately, they also make it much harder to find
than a single mailing list having all of the users.
Who loses? The users. Who wins? The bloggers?
--- Eric Ray <ericjray -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> On the other hand, blogs are a cool way to post an
> answer. I find
> it quite interesting the way that blogs are
> providing a significant proportion
> of the technical documentation in the open source
> (FOSS) community,
> and users seem to be perfectly content with that.
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