On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Daniel Burke <burkey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I like you Paul. It is so true of what I see on forums everywhere, 90:10 > S:N ratio That being said, if we must have a forum, we should make it a fundraiser. Email access, free. Forum access, >$1/mesg to post. > I do however find Forums can be useful as a repository, especially when I am > at someone elses computer or do not feel like searching my own email. That's true, but like I said above, email archives serve the same purpose a little more effectively, if only because forums fail so horribly at message presentation and threads (before we even get down to the content) as to make them unusable for the task. To date, the only exceptions to this have been Slashcode (likely due to a more usenet-reader approach from the start, and the karma/scorefiltering systems generally forcing the finer posts to the surface and the stereotypical forum posts generally sinking into oblivion) and Livejournal (though not as much as Slashcode, thanks to a complete lack of karma and scorefiltering). At least most mailing list software supports mhonarc or some other widely used, threaded mailing list archiver... -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx
