And on a forum, you have to read all the names of those threads you have
no interest in. With a decent mail client setup correctly you never see
the threads you dont want to read, they are deleted. On a forum, those
posts are always there, and you have to wade thru them when searching
for anything. One more reason why not to duplicate work and make people
look in multiple places to gain access to this mailing list (ie sign up
at forum, then you also have to sign up at the mailing list as well.)
And why do you want to have to add more work to what you have to do when
you come online? You already check your mail, and can have filters
setup to flag any threads youd be interested in; why add on having to
visit a forum, and then wade thru the new posts of the day to see if any
of them are of interest to you?
Do people not know how to use a mail client? Do people not want the
posts in real time? Do people not understand that a mailing list is
much more effecient than a forum?
Now what I think would have been most ideal is if you could easily respond right at gossamer threads (or for that matter migrating to an archiving solution that allows responses like that). That would mean those who don't want to have to worry about getting tons of myth mail can just search (for some a new concept) the archives and respond right at the archive and just check back when they wanted to, without ever having to be subscribed to the mailing list getting all of the myth mail.
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