Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Saturday, August 23, 2003 2:18 AM): > What do other people think? Should I move to a forum for the tech support? > Or would better promotion of the existing web archives of the list be good > enough (you can read the list there, but not post)?
As Jason pointed out, for those who provide the bulk of responses, a mailing list is much more convenient. I prefer it because it allows me to use the mail client of my choice (one with spell check) and notifies me with new messages. It also makes it easy for me to delete the messages I will not or cannot respond to and to save the ones I will respond to later. I find forums very hard to navigate and, personally, have never found them useful. In practice, as a reference, they tend to get off-topic enough that you can't be certain you are looking in the right thread (or that a new thread hasn't come up). These same problems affect mailing list archives. OTOH, I realize that different minds work in different methods and that there are many users out there who prefer the anonymity/self-discovery that a forum can provide. > I don't see having both as a good solution, by the way, except for a > transitional period. While I agree that running both (separately) is not feasible, the best solution would probably be a forum-like interface to the mailing list archives. Think groups.google.com. I don't know of any such software publicly available, but would like to hear of it if anyone has any ideas. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
