I do participate in a couple other Linked-In lists. I'll check that one out. As the response to this thread shows, though, replies come pretty quickly in the email list. In any case, the Linked-In list sounds worth investigating.
Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Wheeler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Why not a forum On 23/07/2014 9:03 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:51:54PM +0000, Preston, Dale wrote: >> I was just wondering why this group uses an email list rather than a forum. >> It seems forum software is more searchable and filterable than email lists. > If it had been my choice: because I'd have to go to a forum every day > (and a hundred others!) while email comes to me. I have plenty of > powerful email search and filter tools right here on my workstation. > > Every time someone proposes some other medium for this sort of > communication (forum, Twitter, etc.) my first question is "how can I > get that in email?" I can't think offhand of any forum software I've > used that isn't uncomfortable, inconvenient and hard to search. > The Maven LinkedIn forum will send you e-mails plus LinkedIn will inform you of activity in discussions in which you are active in all of the groups to which you belong. Ron -- Ron Wheeler President Artifact Software Inc email: [email protected] skype: ronaldmwheeler phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
