Molle Bestefich wrote:
Paul wrote:
No seriously, I don't have the time to spend going out and monitoring a
dozen forums. I find mail lists much more convenient ... the
information comes to me, I don't have to go to the information.
I feel the same.
I'd like to know exactly what it is that people find so convenient about forums.
I'd also like to know why the wine list archives can't provide the
same convenience.
Two things come to mind:
* Ability to apply a 'star' rating to topics (called "sticky"?) that
are enlightened and/or of general interest. (I think that designated
forum administrators perform this task.)
* Ability to post under a pseudonym (without going through the trouble
of finding a free e-mail provider, creating an account, figuring out
how their web interface works, etc.)
* ... What else?
You can't reply to the archives.. you still have to sign up for the
mailing list. I don't like having my inbox flooded with emails from the
devel and bugs lists. If I go to a forum, I see a topic once and read
all of the posts to that topic if I want to, whereas I have to delete
every email I dont want/need to read and then delete it from the trash
(or shift+del to avoid the trash).. I'd prefer the forums because I can
turn off email notifications and then if my email changes, I just change
it in 1 place instead of 2 or more like with the lists, and if I cant
check my email for several days, I dont have to sort thru 700 emails, I
just read thru the forum posts.
It's a lot more convenient..
Now sure I like having the emails sent to my inbox, and just leave
Thunderbird open, but sometimes I wish I could just browse for it.
Tom
P.S. It's easier to link to a forum post in the wiki than to a ML
thread, because you have to click several extra links to find the thread
and/or individual post in the ML archives, whereas you can search for
the post and get a relatively small list of threads on a forum.
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