At 10:30 2001-12-14 -0600, Philip Molter wrote: >On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:14:00AM -0500, Etienne Marcotte wrote: >: Sorry but I've never seen a mailing list archive really working.. > >That's a fault of mailing list archive designers, not mailing list >archives. [snip]
I agree. Besides, and more importantly, I much prefer a mailing list. HD space is cheap, I keep everything, just subdivide into different folders. The result is that I can *always* search everything - even off-line. The biggest disadvantage of a forum is that you have to on-line to be able to do anything, and every new action is a new connect and a new wait. That ends up being more expensive than receiving all posts in your mailbox in one burst, especially when you have to pay per minute for the phone connection (as most people in the world have to do). Cost of using a newsgroup is somewhere in-between as some readers are able to download everything and then let you read and prepare responses off-line. A web front end for the mailing list would be fine - but I would never use it! [anti-filter kluge: mysql, database, grrr] Marjolein Katsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Woman - http://javawoman.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
