Personally I prefer it as it is... an email list. I like to know at once when a post has been submitted. My email tells me that and I will hear it from the other end of the apartment, while a forum page has to be updated manually to show any changes. I also like the simplicity to arrange interesting posts in folders and also saving as files.
... and IMO it does give a more personal feeling than a forum. Those were my 2 cents... Chris: Old deleted posts can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html and can be offlist replied to. I don't know if they are there FOREVER, but I got as far back as http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00000.html, Dec 7th, 2001... perfectly good enough to me. /Nick On 11/14/07, Chris Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few observations from someone who used to contribute a fair bit but who > is now a lurker. > > With the major advances in the last few years with website indexing > through search sites such as Google, to get any kind of new blood in to a > site you need to have content that Google can crawl. > > As far as I am aware, after a message is posted on VFB and deleted from > the Inbox of people it is gone forever. E-mail lists will never be able to > compete with forums where information is held forever. > > The forum based groups have so much more to offer and are a lot more > versatile than e-mail groups. The cost of running a forum is minimal - in > fact it can be as good as free. There would be no need to request dues from > anyone.... > > There is no content on the net for the VFB for people to pick up on, hence > the lack of new posts coming through. > > Please don't view this as an attack on VFB, it is just honest feelings > about e-mail lists, and is constructive rather than destructive. > > Chris > -- > Complete Fisher Forum > www.completefisher.com/forum > > Complete Fisher Site > www.completefisher.com
