> And you left out the most important point. It is very hard to figure out
> what's new and what's old in a forum compared the a mailing list.
> There's
> a lot of clicking around and reading old messages to find the new ones.
> And forums are "dumb" in the sense that they will mark off all new
> messages are "seen" even if you just pop in for a second to read one new
> message. I cna think of a few ways to make forums more "clever", but I'm
> not going to program a whole forum-package just for this (I also don't
> want to pay the bandwidth bills).
>
> - Andreas
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> <URL:http://www.solitude.dk/>
> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology.
>
Don't know when the last time you used a forum is, but all that stuff is
not necessarily true depending on the package you use. I've seen
packages that allow you to basically only mark threads as read when you
read them, no matter when you go in, also solving the searching for
messages you haven't read among the ones you have.. There are better
packages out there. Bandwidth bills are a problem though.
Clint
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