Re: Why can't you guys make a simple newsgroup for svn and tortoise

On Monday 25 February 2008, joeH wrote:
> This is ridiculous. How much of a problem could it be to set up a
> newsgroup on yahoo or google or even sourceforge? It is extremely
> frustrating trying to figure out how to use svn and tortoisesvn with
> the available documentation. AND I FOR ONE don't have time to spend
> with trial-and-error over and over again because there is no
> newsgroup to review. With all the spam out there, email newsgroups
> suck and are ridiculously outmoded. I think svn and tortoisesvn have
tremendous
> potential to help with my software development but so far I run into
> brick wall after brick wall and have deleted my first repositories
> dozens of times and wasted days already and still haven't been able
> to figure out how to do some simple things in spite of the svn book
> and tortoisesvn help.

I don't see what a newsgroup would solve that isn't already solved by the
mailing list.

If you don't understand something in the book or need help with things not
covered in the book, the users_at_subversion.tigris.org is the place to ask for
enlightenment. People here are polite and help you if you're polite as
well :-) You can even search for past messages:

http://svn.haxx.se/

You will find several years of discussions here. Chances are you have a
problem that others already had. And if not: just tell the nice people on the
users@ mailing list what you want to do and which problems you've encountered
and you normally get an answer within a day or so.

Spam isn't a problem here as these lists are moderated.

Bye,
        Marc

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Marc Haisenko
Comdasys AG
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80686 München
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)89 548 433 321
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