In theory, this works. but I for one prefer the current mail list method. Currently, I am still stuck using a 56k modem and must share a connection with other members of my family. With the amount of traffic on my mail account, I have configured my mail to be downloaded while any of the family members are online. This means that I can come home later and read through the latest posts without having to be online and tying up the phone line. I also find that there is too hard to follow long online threads, you spend too much time re downloading the previous posts just to remind you what happened the previous day. This takes too much time with the amount of content going through these lists daily. In closing I have to ask if you have set up a filter for this mail. If not, I'd look into it. I makes it very easy to sort the posts into another folder to allow easy reading of your more important emails. Marc van Leeuwen wrote: > >... if I'm the only one in the USA actively involved in this API. During > >the day (my day that is) very little activity here. > > > >Then "you guys" wake up and systematically create overload my e-mail account > >every night. > > > >So,... > > > >(1) Are Americans lazy? Prefering to follow Joshua and the "New Gods of > >Flash". > >(2) Are Americans shy? Prefering to lay low and mind their own business > >(snicker). > >(3) Are Americans stupid? Reading these posts in "drop jawed awe" but > >unable to formulate opinion or make a solid contribution. > :-) > > How funny, there was a discussion some time ago but inverted, I remember > that was Pascal asking "Am I the only european here ?" > > About the amount of mail, I do not like it too. I tried receiving digests > only, but in practice, it is impossible (i.e. difficult and unhandy) to > respond, to follow a single discution, so not so useful. I would prefer > instead of the mailing list a system "� la UBB", where a topic is clearly a > topic, not mails that cross each other. A second point why I would prefer > this is that I can check it whenever I want, not receiving lots of email. > If there is a topic I don't like, I do not have to receive (and delete) all > the responses to it. A last point would be the amount of mail that is > beeing sent. I surely think that a UBB-like system is more bandwidth-and > resource-savy, but I may be wrong. But of course, the annouce list is > surely better in a mailing-list form. > However, maybe for some of the receipients, a mail is handyier at work. It > easyier to justify "I'm reading my mail" than "I'm on the web, but on a > forum"... > So I raised a discussion that goes much more far than "Am I the only one > that wakes up with a full mailbox writtent by some europeans ?", but it is > maybe worth discussing > > Marc > > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev -- Michael Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12107010 _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-dev
