Geoff,
use a dial-up line (RTC with 56K modem) for the internet connection, go to a
forum - get your messages and come back to us with your (new) feeling.
BTW: I forget, think you have a 50 hours a month internet connect plan with your
ISP.
I am quite sure that you will love the Mailing List and do not appreciate the
WEB forum anymore.
FYI: in France, the ratio DSL / RTC 56K is 50% / 50% (if my memory is
correct)...
Do what you have to do, users will try to follow; those who cannot will stay
where they can, and some will eventually stop and do different things...
Cheers,
Emile
PS: I am not ranting in any way. I use the Mailing List and will not use a WEB
Forum until I will have a 24/24, 7/7 dsl connection.
Also, I have to wait (or pay $5 for one hour of WiFi DSL connection) to be at a
friend's house to download REALbasic (how many times to download it from a 56K
RTC connection ?)...
To talk about the past, I have to say that I downloaded all R1DRx versions since
DR22 to REALbasic 1.0 using that very same RTC 56K slow connection...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: Re: ** NUG List Etiquette and Resources (Unofficial) ** From: Geoff Perlman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:41:17 -0600 I think this is a
matter of which method (mailing list or web forum) you are accustomed to using.
Having just compared reading and responding to messages on both, I can't see how the
forums require more time than the mailing list. The forums provide an easy way to see
all the posts since your last visit (similar to receiving all the NUG messages since
you last checked your email) and also include an easy way to see the posts that have
yet to receive a reply which is very helpful for those that want to help but also be
efficient with their time. The forums also allow the users to see only messages in
the topic area in which they are interested. And when an off-topic post appears in
any forum other than the off-topic forum, the moderators can immediately move the
message to where it belongs. Someone mentioned that they thought the
NUG mailing list had gone downhill since the forums were introduced. I'm not
sure exactly what was meant by that however, it appears to me that the number
of messages on the NUG has not decreased. The forums are getting about the same
number of messages per day as the list. This would suggest that the forums are
serving users that were not subscribing to the lists. It would be better if you
could have all the messages in one place of course. I was not a fan of the
forums and resisted supporting them for a long time. However, I realized one
day that perhaps my resistance was more about what I was used to rather than
reality. Once I started using the forums, I found them to be much more
efficient. Again I think this is all about what you are used to rather than
which method is better. On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
WEb forums are a huge time sink hole because you have to click
through everything.
I'd agree that if the forums mailed every posting to the NUG and
there as a was to reply from the NUG to those things that came from
the forums it would be great
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