On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 0:24, kieran mullen wrote: > No but it beats going to the site and wasting time by not seeing any > posts there. This was stated earlier.
And is the primary reason I don't normally use forums... The one time I made serious use of a forum was when I needed some info about a problem with my old Chrysler Valiant.... I still would have preferred a mailing list, since I still had to fire up Opera (at that time - it was then far superior to firefox in speed of rendering), find the bookmark, log in, find the latest reply, usually had to navigate a thread to find it, and then if I needed to respond I had to wait (again) for the necessary page to render. It used to take bout 5 minutes minimum to do all that. With email, the response would have been delivered to my inbox (actually would have been filtered to its own folder), I would have been able to read it straight away, and back up through the thread if need be (yes my email program threads messages, better than many forums I've visited), reply if needed, all of which would take about 2 minutes maximum. Fora are slow, hard to navigate, the threading is no better than even Outleak (which I have used) or Eudora, and seems worse than the threading in KMail (under Linux). For discussions, they are not as convenient as the alternatives. For support, they are more use, but my experience (so far) is that even there email is faster and more convenient. > > KM > > On 1/26/06, Rimas Kudelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kieran mullen wrote: > > > Some problems with your post.. > > > > > > 1)You don't need to login now to check, so why would you in the future? > > > > > > 2)Subscription by subject AND by forum is available. When someone > > > posts a new subject in the forum you can still can an email with the > > > text posted in it. So you don't have to go to the website if nothing > > > gets posted. (kinda like an email list right?) > > > > > > I think I have answered everything. Right? > > > > You can't answer to the forum by e-mail though. Can you? > > > > RQ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
