On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:24 am, Nicole Lewis wrote: > While daily deleting unopened a large percentage of newbie correspondence, > an opinion has formed that another forum in which I participate is > somewhat more elegant > in the mechanism by which technical information and discussion is made > available. > Take a look at > http://www.andyspares.com/discussionforum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=3 > Here, each thread is collated onto a single html page, which can include > photos & drawings, > so that one can read the sequence of contributions without wading past a > clutter of repeating material. > Sometimes, a hotlink is given in a contribution which takes one to a > previous thread > which has already covered the subject particularly well, and there is also > a search facility which brings up all threads containing a given keyword. > I reckon it is really nifty. Worth plagiarizing. > Of course, it helps that I understand a whole lot more about cars than I > do about Linux. This is a classic debate, as good as vim vs emacs, gnome vs kde. Some people like web forums as you have stated the reasons for very well, I personally can't stand them because they are so slow. IMO, a ML with a good set of filters and a mail client that does proper message threading can't be beat and I will very rarely visit a web forum.
Just my 2 cents. -- /g
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