Dear Rooters, this mail is to announce the opening of the new "RootTalk Forum". Although we are in the process of installing spamassassin to reduce the amount of spam sent to the roottalk mailing list, we now also have created a RootTalk Forum. We believe that the model offered by a forum scales better with a growing user community than a mailing list. A mailing list pushes information to a large number of people (> 1000 for roottalk) which is a considerable waste, especially if many people are mostly interested in the answers to their own questions. With a forum, on the other hand, the user pulls only the information he needs when he needs it. In addition a forum allows easy creation of sub-forums, better browsing, threads that can always be added to or updated, etc. The ROOT team will do its best to animate the forum like we are animating the mailing list and for the time being the two will co-exist. If you subscribe to the forum, feel free to un-subscribe from the mailing list to reduce the load on our mailing system. The forum is available at http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/. There is also a link to it from the left column on the ROOT home page. Cheers, Fons. -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://www.rademakers.org/fons/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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