On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 21:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Maybe it is my ignorance, but I find it much more time-consuming > to navigate through a forum than to skim through a newsgroup/mailing > list. No, I agree with your sentiment. Forums are rarely well-organised, just a hoshposh of postings. And it gets worse the more messages in a thread, and the more forums you get involved in. With email, they all come to you, and you can filter and organise them as you see fit. I think I've been doing this for over 15 years, by now, and I can participate in mailing lists, or news groups, with ease. But using web forums involves logging in left, right, and centre, and always having to *search* for things. You have to wade through page after page to do anything, and owners keep on re-organising things. And you have plenty of slow-as-molasses forums, because of what they run on, or they allow users to put scripting or animated avatars next to their post, which bogs your browser down. Yep, 3 GHz computer brought to its knees by badly constructed webpages, never mind users injecting malicious stuff. I participate in no web forums, because they're such a pain. And I've yet to see a single one to convince me otherwise. -- NB: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me without making prior arrangements. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
