[Zope] my 2pennies about newsgroup

[Tom Deprez]

I often go to Experts-Exchange : www.experts-exchange.com

I find it a great place. This is how it works :

People can log in (everything is free :-))

They can ask a question.

On a question a comments can be given
Or the question can be answered (and comments can still be given)

The person evaluates the q'n and then can reject the answer (so somebody
else can answer it) or he can grade the answer.

... E-E works with giving points per grading etc (to make it a sort of
compitition). But that isn't really needed.

When you enter the site (and choosen a topic) you see the following rows :

Your ask questions
Questions awaiting answer
Questions answered, waiting for grading
And answered questions.

The beauty of this method is :

1. All questions are solved in seperate threads. If you haven't said, 'I
want to follow the thread', you don't get a mail saying, new comment in
thread Y. However, if you want to follow a thread, you add a comment (or an
empty comment) to the thread and then you can follow the q'n.
2. If a question is solved, you can search it through the solved q'ns
3. If a q'n is answered, you know that somebody is already helping this
person. So you can decide to help somebody else, or you can follow the
thread.
4 gives also a good overview...

Regards, Tom.