Bruce Barrett said it like this:
In a forum you can select the topics of interest to you
so you can avoid 100s of messages that are not of interest
with next to zero effort.
Setting up a mail filter in PowerMail takes less time than using a web
forum in my experience. Only drawback I see is that
Winston Weinmann said it like this:
I do in fact use PM to easily trash most of the mailing lists posts, and
yes, it is relatively easy to do. But I'd prefer not to have to do it at
all. You don't mind doing that. Because we have different working styles
does not mean that some people would not
Mikael Byström / 2007/07/26 / 06:26 AM wrote:
Setting up a mail filter in PowerMail takes less time than using a web
forum in my experience. Only drawback I see is that messages have to be
downloaded.
That isn't drawback for me. If forum, I can't read when I have no net
connect, while I can
Posts and information on mailing lists that is not useful is called
Noise not spam.
Winston Weinmann / 2007/07/14 / 01:43 PM wrote:
You find the mailing list forum very
useful. Others may find a forum format more useful.
Well, this is how I take. This list is a user group rather than a
support list by the developer. I much prefer listserv since there are
tons of good scripts
BUT if the volume were 10 times the current level, even at
better quality, I'd unsubscribe.
Actually, this list has been very quiet this year.
I miss the eyeball discussions. ;)
Chris
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Matthias -
Please re-read Bruce's post. You find the mailing list forum very
useful. Others may find a forum format more useful. There is nothing
wrong with having a difference of opinion on that.
I do in fact use PM to easily trash most of the mailing lists posts, and
yes, it is relatively easy
Hi Matthias,
I think if you re-read what he actually said you'll find it is
not the quality of the (mostly) polite, reasoned, informed,
helpful, understanding, compassionate messages that are being
exchanged that Mr. Weinmann is referring to that he was attaching
the potential spam-like label
Bruce,
I receive between 300 to 500 mails per day from different mailinglists
and approx. 0.5 mails from those are coming from the pm list!
With the help of PowerMail I manage to read everything I'm interested in
and to trash the rest.
I can't help, but I have the impression you guys just can't
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