Charles Marcus wrote: >> Whether or not a forum is a better idea isn't really depending on the >> subject matter IMHO. Its success or failure depends on what the >> prospective participants like better. I personally cannot stand >> forums. That's a place where I have to expend energy to go there and >> manually click through stuff. If I remember to go there and say up to >> date, that is. Email comes to me, and is sorted suitably on the server >> side so there is no clutter. Deleting messages I don't care about is >> much easier than clicking myself through some thread on a forum. > > You never heard of a forum that sends new posts to you via email? > > I prefer forums where I can subscribe to the forum topics that interest > me, and see only posts for those topics - yes, in my email. > > Then each message from the forum should have links to the CENTRALIZED > FAQs (I understand there are a lot of different forums/faq's out there). > > That said, I seem to be in the minority in preferring forums for supprt > related things like this - especially high volume stuff - so I'll just > pipe down now... > > :) >
can't forget about forum RSS feeds too.. then you can selectively pick which messages you want to view.. -- . -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/GIT> d-@ s+:+ a? C+++ BLHIS$ U+++ P+> L+++ !E W+++$ N++ o+ K w-- PS+++ PE@ Y+ PGP++ t 5? X !R tv+ b- DI-- D G e+> h---- r+++ y++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ .
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