14 Jun
2004
14 Jun
'04
3:07 p.m.
Hallo,
Pete Bessman hat gesagt: // Pete Bessman wrote:
Maybe it's because mailing lists are
anachronistic, relatively
high-commitment, and generally sucky?
Yeah, I don't like 'em, and I'm signed up for 4. The forum is much
nicer IMHO because you can just pop in, see whats up, possibly say
something, and leave without any hassle.
Thanks for your comments, Pete. As I'm on the other side, like Andrea
being a fan of mailing lists, I always wondered, why people can even
endure web forums. You gave some good points and enlightend me a bit.
Though I'm not conviced at all ;) Editing textarea-fields simply
sucks. And I'm also saying this as a web developer. Generally
useability of web forums is really bad, that's my main gripe against
them. Also I like having the mailing list archives (and my own sent
mail) on my own hard disk instead of someone else's. grepmail is a
cool tool and much quicker than most web searches. Also searching
stuff and participating on lists won't be slowed down when I
bitttorrent the newest Dynebolic or do similar things.
You're right that mailing lists require more commitment from
participants, but that also is their strong points: the signal to
noise ratio generally is quite high on lists.
Ciao
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