r937 wrote:
... I don't have to fire up my browser and visit a particular
site in order to search for a thread that I once posted on
with a forum, you get an email every time someone replies in a thread
that you're subscribed to
you are automatically subscribed to every thread in which you have
posted, and you can subscribe to other threads as well
so this is ~much~ better than a mailing list, because
1. you get emails for every thread you're interested in, and
2. you ~don't~ get emails for ~everything~ that's posted on the forum
some people might view this second point as a drawback ("i don't get to
see everything that's going on any more") but it's really a feature --
you can easily see the "everything" list of posts by visiting the "get
new posts" page in the forum
i've been on multiple forums for between 7 and 9 years, and forums are
more member-friendly than mailing lists
I respectfully disagree.
This is a quiet community; I'm not going to be checking a forum every
day or two to see if there's any new messages; if and when there are, I
want them delivered to me. I suspect many other members will likely
feel the same way.
If we moved to a forum, lots of questions that would have been answered
quite promptly on the list would never be answered (or would be answered
so late as to make the answers unlikely to help any more) simply because
people won't see the question.
I've been on (and am still a member of) various forums, and also an a
member of various mailing lists) - I find mailing lists infinitely more
useful.
Forums have their uses, but I really don't think one would be suited to
this community.
This isn't a high-volume list, it's not like you get flooded with mail,
and any half-decent email client can filter mail however you want.
Cheers
Dave P
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