Lynn- Monday, September 4, 2006, 8:09:36 AM, you wrote:
> - Articles/writing can be organized more topically than in mailing lists. > Sure, there are threads in mailing lists, but that doesn't tie together all > threads on a particular subject. > - Forums allow post-posting editing/reorganizing by the writer and by the > moderator/admin. > - Forums allow a form of communal segmentation if that is desirable. If all > you want to do is hang on the K-12 forum, then you can hang there with > others that care about it. > - Forums are more territorial than mailing lists and that brings with it a > few benefits to the forum owner. > I recognize there are downsides to forums, too. Thank you. I'm more oriented toward the mailing list approach, and as Richard Gaskin points out, I appreciate having all posts come my way even if I decide to ignore them. But you have laid out here the first logically compelling rationalization I've seen for the advantages of a web forum. I'd still like to have the phpBB email option enabled on the rev forum, but now I'm looking forward to joining up. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
