Hi Marck and others! In message mid:488327688.20021025102258@;silverstones.com on Friday, October 25, 2002, 4:22:58 AM, you wrote:
MDP> I haven't said this myself yet, but Allie has said it - I won't be MDP> participating in a message board. Every time I have been forced to MDP> use one, I have found the experience time consuming, cumbersome and MDP> negative. I have to break off from what I'm doing and deliberately MDP> log in to see what's going on there. I get notifications when one of MDP> my posts gets a response but joining in otherwise is a matter of MDP> vigilant monitoring. I don't have time or energy (nor a broadband MDP> connection <g>) to do that. I haven't noticed anyone mentioning it, but there's no reason that a message board cannot also be a mailing list. Yahoo and Topica are good examples of these; you can read mail online or you can get it via email or both. This would probably work quite well for everyone, if you don't mind the ads. I agree completely about message boards, though; I don't think that anyone who has been online for any length of time will care much for them, although they are GREAT for newbies who simply want a fast answer without a commitment (subscription to mailing list), and they're generally also good for searching for a question that may have already been answered. -- --Scott. mailto:Wizard@;local.nu Using The Bat! 1.61 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 on an AMD Athlon XP 1900 (1.6G real, 1.9G effective) with 512MB. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
