John Drescher wrote: > > > A forum is much nicer and handier than a mailing list anyday, upgrade the forum! > > > > The huge negative for a forum to me is that I am signed up to 20 to 30 > mailing lists. All of which are delivered to google my email account. > For most of these I have a 3+ year history of every single non spam > post. When more of these become forums I will spend less time reading > posts and participating. I simply I do not have time to go to 20 > different forum pages login, open and read messages ... > > Although like I said in my first reply I do not participate much > anymore since I work 80+ hours a week on the day job just about every > week so the loss would not be that big.. > > John I have no problems using forums... I read about 15 of them daily. I have them all in one button to open in tabs in my browser... user name and password is saved so I never have to enter them... all unread messages are marked, and i can scroll through and look at topics and such. For smaller forums that don't get a lot of posts, like this one, I can look at every message... i usually open each new message in a new tab and skim through them quickly. I do not think a mailing list is any more efficient... it just comes down to what you are use to using
