Harold,
The advantages for me are:
1. The emails appear in a threaded list. In my email folder, I can sort via
subject line and all the "re: xxx-subject-xxx" are grouped together but the
original message without the "re:" in the subject is not grouped with all
the replies.
2. I can more easily see subject titles and just not click on ones I'm not
interested in for example, "Chinese Language" and any of the many threads
about "OO and Mobile Devices".
3. I don't have to delete a tonne of email messages. This is very important
to me because my "computer time" is severely limited due medical reasons.
I'm sure I'd have a far greater understanding of the whole OOo system and
possibly not ask an oft-repeated question if I read all the emails, but I'm
never going to remember all the information and quite probably will ask a
dumb" question anyway... So off to the forum system I go... Tra la la la ;)
Sue Werner
aka SueZoo
~lost in a fibro-fog
www.stoons.ca
-------Original Message-------
From: Harold Fuchs
Date: 07/01/2007 4:35:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Forced Registration For This List
On Sunday, January 07, 2007 6:58 AM [GMT+1=CET], Jay Maechtlen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings!
> I'm reading this via GMANE as a news forum- emails tend to pile up and
> become a nuisance.
>
> I see that there's a pretty decent FAQ on the OOo site.
> What if the mail server that handles this list appends to each
> outgoing message a link to the FAQ and a brief blurb about it?
>
> fwiw
> Jay
Problem with this is that the asker doesn't see the blurb until s/he
gets an answer ;-)
The *only* advantage I can see of using a news forum instead of simple
e-mail is that the fact it's a news group acts as an automatic filter,
separating OO stuff from other stuff. But it doesn't cut out the amount
Of irrelevant OO stuff.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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