On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Max Waterman wrote: } Really? I don't understand that. My email ISP receives every message sent to } the list; I certainly don't read every thread.
E.mail is a LOT smaller, file size wise, than browsing the w3 [web]. Every time you visit a w3-based forum, you're loading graphics, banner ads, etc, etc. A lot of those forums also have avitars [icons for each user], and they too take time to load. Heck, just one of those can be equal to nearly 12 e.mails to this list! Imagine a thread with 30 unique users posting to it - that's 30 icons just for each user! } > *My* bandwidth used would certainly be higher with a forum. } > } Surprising (to me). How is that? Perhaps I am not understanding how this stuff } works....care to enlighten me? Because Isaac would need to host the forums on a server he would run/own/etc. Each time a user surfed to the forum, that user is not just getting a simple text message, but gobs of graphics, and other bandwidth-sucking files. Even low-bandwidth forums, like punbb.org, cost more [in bandwidth] to run than a mailman-hosted mailing list. It also puts the burden of searching on the server hosting the forum, and not your Mac. Thunderbird has a *great* search feature. Why not subscribe to the list, have all traffic filtered to a certain folder, mark as read, and then, when you are looking for something, open that folder and do a search? If nothing is found, then one of the w3-based interfaces would work. But remember, a search on your local system is merely asking OS X to search its own hosted files. When you search via a forum, the server on the other end is doing all the work. You might just be one user, but imagine if 500 users do this same thing on this one server. Now you've got both bandwidth and CPU issues. /vjl/
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