On 8/25/2011 2:41 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
On 24/08/2011 21:04, RA Brown wrote:
Jim Parkhurst wrote:
I rely on the questions posted and the responses provided. Maybe not
"heavily" but as a resource to answer questions I may have (or had).
Some questions are out of my scope. But the information provided is
valuable to me and to those whom I support.
Jim Parkhurst
Hi Jim,
This is the type of information that is needed. Would using a forum work
as well? If not why?
I'm another with a dislike of web fora.
They've always seemed much harder to use - whether to get a query
submitted, or a response or to search archives. And you lose
serendipity - with a mail list, you see a stream of questions/answers
with the regular email and can leap in (if appropriate!), and fork a
thread if necessary; with a forum, you have to make a special effort
to look. And Effort is the watchword.
You're making me think...
WEEDING
I'm just finishing weeding a zillion posts out of my OO email folder,
with the remainder -primitively- tagged. Can't do that on a forum.
And on a forum, when a tough question has multiple pages of response,
that's a lot of button pushing, plus there's a tendency to not quote, so
a single copy/paste doesn't suffice if saving a gem.
Here, the tough thing is the lack of a way to amend a subject line so it
says what the subject is. So many "Help me!", so few precise...
Hmm, wonder if my tag add-on will do 30 or 40 tags...
Dave Babcock
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