At 12:21 06-12-04, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:
I would be opposed to an online web-based forum or blog-type forum for reasons previously stated by others and the relative slowness of having to download a separate webpage each time a window is changed. Email is so much faster and convenient.
Also, I suspect at least a few on either/both DX-NEWS or DX-CHAT are using Blackberries or text-only PDAs which are or may be incapable of downloading/uploading webpages.
The e-mail interface to Yahoo groups is actually quite good. I get mail very regularly from all 42 of my subscribed groups and the posting latency is rarely more than a couple of minutes. Anyone using the N1MM Yahoo group can see how even a high-volume list can benefit from it if it's used as an e-mail list. The advertising on the Web interface is annoying as heck but still livable. IT also provides an ongoing searchable archive that's quite handy as well.
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