Surely all these things could be possible on the BBC if we set it up
right... 

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Pope
Sent: 04 March 2010 10:56
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Subject: Re: [backstage] Move to Mailman

On 4 March 2010 10:40, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Why? What can you do on a mailing list that you can't do on a message 
> board?
>

Yay! Web boards vs mailing list religious debate!

Read and reply to current posts whilst offline (email client of choice).
Read the content of the message without downloading unnecessary crap
like avatars, banners, adverts, great gobs of javascript - useful on 3G
connections.
Choose how the content is presented to you (console, web, fat mail
client, news reader [via 3rd party]).
Decently thread conversations in the client of your choice.
Archive the content without relying on the server (i.e. keep mail in a
folder) Search content without relying on the server (again, offline if
required)

etc etc.

Al.
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