----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sándor Halász" <h...@tbbs.net> > Subject: Re: forum vs email
> I believ that one could both by e-mail and through a webbrowser comment on a > Google group. True; and before that there was yahoo groups, and others. Those are not fora, however, merely web interfaces to mailing lists / newsgroups. One of the (for me, at least) defining features of a forum, is that the subjects tend to be divided up into a tree structure, which has it's own benefits; although as Shawn says, there is also benefit to the broad exposure you get on a mailing list. > And one who reads & sends e-mail through a webbrowser surely considers > discussion through e-mail simplie more overhead than using his webbrowser for I use webmail - to the point where I host my own domains. Still vastly prefer email over fora, as interfaces go. Better read/unread views, proper filtering, sorting stuff into folder structures that are convenient for me instead of for the administrator, etc. > discussion, too. I further suspect e-mail clients on own computers are not in > fashion. That does seem to be the case; although I think in a corporate setting the situation is different. -- Unhappiness is discouraged and will be corrected with kitten pictures. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
