on 2/22/06 1:36 AM, Jason McBride at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Karen wrote: >> For heavy use (high traffic) navigating forums is significantly slower >> .. and how fast pages come up varies a good bit. Viewing downloaded >> messages does not. >> >> Visually scanning a list of messages is quick... and with OSX mail >> threading that list can be much shorter (though I don't use it). >> Sorting by Date or author is something I find useful also as well as >> searching by key words. >> >> also I have mailboxes see up I can drag message i want to to save to >> for reference... can't do that easily in for forums... >> Also forums can only be read while on-line... down loaded messages can >> be read at your leisure even when you don't have a connection (laptop >> or your ISP is having problems) >> >> Mailing lists give me more control overall and are more efficient for >> me. > > I second all of that ยก;-)
I'll third it. Joe's example of http://www.lugnet.com/ seems like the ideal solution. A web forum with alternate email and news reader interfaces. Personally the latter is the most efficient but has fallen out of fashion. To this all off RS's forums are missing a number of features that makes forum reading more efficient (the main page tells you what the last post was but not its subject, when you're looking a list of threads the alt text for a thread doesn't provide the first line of the text, ...). What I think RS's finds more efficient about the web forum is that it is easy to redirect and kill off-topic threads. As well you can ignore what you're not interested in. What is lessening the value of the NUG is that there is less participation by RS staff. Not that you were guaranteed it before but it did happen. Now you almost have to post in both places. Having to use both a web forum and an email list can't be more efficient in anyone opinion. Chris _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
