Thorsten Wilms escribe: > No. I started using the internet less than eight years ago > and don't consider forums to be more comfortable. So much for > 'anybody'. To me, forums aren't so much more comfortable either, I am talking of the average spanish Internet user without a computer culture behind. > > Mailing lists allow me to subscribe to dozens of them and > manage everything within the same interface. No slow loading > pages, no unecessary formatting, new stuff just comes my way. Also to me, but I've needed to customize my email experience extensively (fetchmail postconnect scripts to archive old mailing list mail, procmail recipes to have everything organized, mutt keystroke configuration so everything's at hand) and I doubt that for a today's average user that is posible up to this point. > Using email to create forum accounts and notification emails > (on replies) should tell you something ... Yes, yes... > > > There's an advantage to forums if you only want to check > them once in a while, irregularly. This point would be moot > if only the archives would appear more forum like ;) Wep, having mailing list archives more easily browsable would be definitely a point! Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ m. +34679156321 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt j. ivalladt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
