Well, I've yet to see a forum where you couldn't "scroll through the
list" of questions posted.


On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 12:04 -0600, Ken Springer wrote:

> On 6/3/11 11:05 AM, Roland Hughes wrote:
> > Forums are far more useful as a "help database" than 1970s mailing list
> > archives ever will be.  Forums allow problems and threads to have
> > statuses, such as SOLVED.  They also allow the original poster and/or
> > the host to flag the message which actually solved the problem.
> 
> But I find the much harder to use to find information I'm interested in.
> 
> Searching is always problematic for me.  I seem to use the word "bucket" 
> for X when almost everyone else uses "pail".  :-)  That seems to fall 
> short of being user friendly for me.
> 
> Plus, I have to spend the time forming the questions.
> 
> I really like the newsgroup format, where I can simply scroll through 
> the subjects and then read what I find interesting, and actually learn 
> something new, rather than waiting until I have a problem that I need 
> solved.
> 
> As you probably read in my other post, I don't like the true mailing 
> list format either, but gmane.org solves that for me.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ken
> 
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> 
> 


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