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3. There are too many info channels! Close down the forum on the LinuxCNC
website ASAP! It doesn't work, Google can't make correct forward links and
some browsers fail to show it. There is an active forum at cnczone (I'll
fix the renaming), there's a working mailing list (also active). There is a
more or less dead website, the wiki is somewhat updated but still there are
obsolete chapters or dead links (I promise to update the wiki myself more
frequently in the future)/quote]

There are many ways to research and receive help on Emc including the Forum, mailing list, IRC, WIKI, etc.
Without spending any time debating the benefits of each my personal favorite and the one that has been most helpful to me is the forum.
If I cannot find the information in any of the documentation 95% of the time a quick search of the forum will return the information I need.
The other 5% of the time posting a question results in one or more responses that solves the problem for you and provides a history for others who may encounter the same situation.

As a whole I have found many forums to be a poor excuse for support. Many seem to be for commercial products that instead of real support from the staff rely on volunteers and the quality of the response can be very hit and miss.

The EMC forum is a true exception, look at the caliper of the people who regularly participate and the quality of the responses, you can't do better than that.

This whole discussion seems to stem from the renaming of EMC and the fact that many members of the EMC community were never made aware of any problem or the change till after it was a done deal.
Do we want better communication? Sure. Does reducing the options of communication help? No.

Rick G