Matthew Burgess wrote: > I'm hardly an old-timer, but for written conversations, I think that an > email based list suits my needs better than anything else.
I agree. I don't know if I qualify as an old-timer, but my first extensive email experience goes back to about 1990. That's not too much later than RFC 821 in 1982. I was doing some local area networking in the mid-eighty's, but that was a custom network, not the internet as we know it. > I've yet to > see or work with a properly threaded forum. HTML markup and those > animated emoticons would have to be disabled. Most forums I've seen > don't allow file uploads, although whether that's a configuration option > or a missing feature, I don't know. I fear we'd end up with links to > various file storage providers that are not guaranteed to be around > tomorrow. I don't really know what the advantage of a forum would be. A mail client configured for IMAP would offer the same thing. All our email messages can be read easily via a browser, and you can post via a browser if you use something like gmail. Personally I read all mail in plain text mode. It's amazing what you see in something like: "You need to verify you bank account at www.yourbank.com <spammer.isp.cn>" -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
