On 18 oct. 2011, at 11:47, Frank Missel wrote: > I see several advantages to having a forum: > > 1. Several subject forums as mentioned > Mail can have as many subjects as desired
> 2. Better view of threads with several levels being immediately displayed > My mail client threads far better than most forums (fora?) > 3. Preview of entries and editing of them even after they are posted (by > the author) Which can be seen as a liability > > 4. Formatted rather than plain text Which mail is capable of > > 5. No need for e-mail-addresses to be exposed > Couldn't a mailing list hide email addresses too? On the other hand, I find mailing lists much better: I can read them off line, I can also answer them off line (my client will send my answers as soon as it gets online), I can archive any and/or all posts that I find valuable… In fact, when fora (forums?) propose a mailing list interface (i.e. google groups), I prefer subscribing to them as a mailing list. Even better than mailing lists: newsgroups. Except my company only lets us use port 80 in addition to the mail gateway, so I can't use newsgroups. JDM _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
