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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>+1 vote for forums and Stack Overflow.<BR>
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Mailing lists leave all organization up to individual users, rather than a central management location.<BR>
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On 7/22/11 5:51 AM, "Dženan Zukić" <<a href="dzenanz@gmail.com">dzenanz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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2011/7/22 Oldrich Svec <<a href="oldrich.svec@gmail.com">oldrich.svec@gmail.com</a>><BR>
</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">I would vote for stackoverflow.com <<a href="http://stackoverflow.com">http://stackoverflow.com</a>> style for all the kitware products,<BR>
if I could :)<BR>
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2011/7/22 Dženan Zukić <<a href="dzenanz@gmail.com">dzenanz@gmail.com</a>>:<BR>
> The same question can be asked for ITK. OSG has connected a mailing list and<BR>
> a forum. Perhaps that can be also done for Kitware's projects.<BR>
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> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:43, ianl <<a href="ilindsay@insigniamedical.co.uk">ilindsay@insigniamedical.co.uk</a>> wrote:<BR>
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>> Really a non VTK question, I am just asking for people's thoughts. Does<BR>
>> anyone else find the mailing list style discussion that VTK uses more<BR>
>> difficult to deal with than a regular internet forum? I may well be<BR>
>> missing<BR>
>> something - maybe there are better tools for viewing it rather than the<BR>
>> email digest (which makes it difficult to follow threads), e.g. Nabble<BR>
>> seems<BR>
>> to do a reasonable job of making the mailing list look like a forum style<BR>
>> discussion, but it is quite basic. Has there ever been a move to go to a<BR>
>> forum style discussion page? I am aware that there may well be very good<BR>
>> reasons that the mailing list is as it is - someone has to maintain and<BR>
>> moderate a forum for example. Any thoughts?<BR>
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>> <a href="http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/Forum-rather-than-a-mailing-list-tp4622264p4622264.html">http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/Forum-rather-than-a-mailing-list-tp4622264p4622264.html</a><BR>
>> Sent from the VTK - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<BR>
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