On Mon 2008-06-23 at 07:50h, Patrick Aikens wrote on ivy-user: : > I have GMail, and it's certainly not a replacement for a decent > forum - even with it's unlimited space, it's just silly to think > that ALL the Ivy users with GMail or an IMAP account should store > their own local cache of messages so they can search them later.
Personally, I highly value a "local cache" for offline searching and for not losing the archive when the forum moves or shuts down. > I clean out all mailing list traffic on a regular basis - I don't > have any Ivy mailing list posts more than a week old. I don't want > it cluttering up hits in my personal mail when I search it, and I > certainly don't want to have to include search modifiers EVERY time > I search my mail to omit all the mailing lists. The usual way to handle this is to use saved searches/virtual folders and/or to have mailing list messages auto-saved to dedicated folders (and other mails too to their respective folders). Really, once you've got accustomed to a powerful e-mail client, you may realize how much better that is than any forum UI in existence and than having to use a dozen forums on a dozen different sites. People who prefer mailing lists over forums usually don't do so because they are old-fashioned but because they find forum UIs to constitute a serious degradation of their user experience compared to their e-mail client. -- Niklas Matthies
