Cees Hek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mark Fuller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mailing lists seem so 1990. I'd ditch it and go with a forum. >> > > A forum requires me to actively participate (ie go to the forum every > day to see what is there). A mailing list allows me to passively keep > in touch since I check my email regularly throughout the day. I don't > read every message on the list, but I at least see the subjects and > look at the stuff that interests me. > > I think switching to a forum would loose a lot of lurkers on this list... >
Cees is completely right. Many of us are very busy people and wouldn't have time to monitor a forum. But having the emails pop in let us quickly scan over the subjects, while we are getting on with our work. There is no way I would have caught this thread if it was on a forum. Lyle ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
