Hallo, Pete Bessman hat gesagt: // Pete Bessman wrote: > Maybe it's because mailing lists are anachronistic, relatively > high-commitment, and generally sucky? > > Yeah, I don't like 'em, and I'm signed up for 4. The forum is much > nicer IMHO because you can just pop in, see whats up, possibly say > something, and leave without any hassle. Thanks for your comments, Pete. As I'm on the other side, like Andrea being a fan of mailing lists, I always wondered, why people can even endure web forums. You gave some good points and enlightend me a bit. Though I'm not conviced at all ;) Editing textarea-fields simply sucks. And I'm also saying this as a web developer. Generally useability of web forums is really bad, that's my main gripe against them. Also I like having the mailing list archives (and my own sent mail) on my own hard disk instead of someone else's. grepmail is a cool tool and much quicker than most web searches. Also searching stuff and participating on lists won't be slowed down when I bitttorrent the newest Dynebolic or do similar things. You're right that mailing lists require more commitment from participants, but that also is their strong points: the signal to noise ratio generally is quite high on lists. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
