At Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:14:24 +0200, Christian Frisson wrote: > > The email notification function on the forums I'm suscribed to supersedes my > erasable memory: each time the thread I've been posting to gets an update, I > receive a link that leads me directly to the first unseen message, with the > previous just above! This ties into my primary reason for preferring forums: scalability of involvement. You can just be an anonymous cruiser, posting occasionally if at all. Or you can have an account and get email notification of every new message in a thread you're involved in. You don't have to totally immerse yourself to get involved. On technical merits I think it's mostly a matter of personal preference, but I think a forum is objectively more amenable to a casual reader than mailing lists en masse. -Pete
