On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:34, Harold Fuchs wrote: > Top Post > > I'm only voting for a web forum if registration is forced. The mailing > list as it is now is fine by me. In fact I prefer it to web forums. But > in my opinion forced registration and, more particularly, the consequent > and entirely unexpected deluge of garbage would be a major turn off for > new users and that instantly tips the balance for me.
You could reduce it by threefold if we separated out the Mac and Windows users from the rest of us and had one list for each subset. > Don't forget too that many OO users are still on slow dial-up lines > using pay as you go tariffs so suddenly getting hundreds of irrelevant > e-mails a day, some with attachments, is not going to be well regarded > from a cost or time point of view. Which is why, while I prefer Email lists, I'd prefer also not to read more questions from Mac users. Not that they aren't nice people, but their problems mostly aren't very relevant to me. > I really don't think we ought to be > inflicting that kind of punishment on some poor soul even if they > couldn't be bothered to read the FAQs. Like not top posting? -- Bob Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
