[linux-audio-user] Re: Re: [Consortium] Re: [a-users] New Linux forum on Sound on Sound site

[Pete Bessman]

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