16 Jun
2004
16 Jun
'04
4:18 p.m.
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