Pete, You're not the only one who prefers forums to mailing lists. I agree with you on "say stuff and read stuff." I also don't care at all for the archive software that is used, for example, for this mailing list in comparison to forum software that I have used. It's one more thing that makes mailing lists look to me like an anachronism. It's probably true that we're in a minority, but that may be only because many people that would have joined a forum won't join mailing lists. I almost didn't join this one, and every week I reconsider that decision, especially because I'm not that active as a user of other's software rather than my own.
