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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Moderator Important Message
Mailing lists and forums are just different, and serve different purposes.
While I can confidently claim to prefer mailing lists for lots of
technical reasons, and have on more than one occasion in the past declared
my hatred of forums on this list, I strongly suggest people actually have
a good poke around on forum.audiogames.net before dismissing the idea. It
really is a nice, well-managed forum that is light on bloat, and in fact
is very friendly to javascriptless, mobile browsers including most
blindness note-takers. It's a great place to hang out when I have the
time, and in fact I generally prefer to catch up there, due to the
archival and organisational properties that are inherent to the forum. I
have also set up a list specifically to reflect the forum postings back to
me in email, so that I can follow in my email clients, which is very quick
and convenient; once you've logged in at the forum, just click the link to
reply to each incoming message, and you wouldn't notice you were using a
forum at all. That list, for those who want the same treatment, is at:
http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
The main advantages of a mailing list are choices of email client, easy
cross-participation in multiple lists, speed for the user in receiving and
sending messages and robustness of the discussion against downtime or
censorship. This latter is sadly less and less true as more people move
to Google Groups or whatever, and also due to the spam filters of various
brain-dead providers. The main advantages of a forum are generally better
etiquette (especially where blindness lists are concerned, I find),
intuitive archival and organisation of threads, centralised features such
as voting or editing of posts, and a much lower curve to discovery and
participation which leads to a broader base of contributions and a
somewhat more relaxed attitude to off-topic discussion and community.
Which one you prefer, or whether you prefer both, is so much about
preference that trying to decide which is "Better" is unlikely to produce
a useful conclusion for everybody. I also need to point out that some
software now has the ability to gateway natively to mailing lists, which
would mean that if people liked the interface, it would certainly be
possible to support both forum and list simultaneously. Mozilla does
this, offering NNTP, email and HTTP access to discussions, and it seems to
work for them.
HTH.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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