RE: [OFFICIAL] - The NEW user forum

At 30/01/2005 19:09 +0100, photools Support wrote:
>Hi, Rusty
>
>For me this sounds as a very negative attitude.
>The new forum has so many advantages over the old Yahoo forum, including 
>better
>presentation, better grouping, separate forums for different threads, a 
>life RSS
>feed of all new messages (for your browser), a user-configurable daily 
>digest of
>all new postings.
>
>-- Mario


I do agree. I've already installed the RSS feed on my MyYahoo!

But  with the new forum you do ask  a fundamental chage of attitude from 
the forum members. They must change from PUSH (Yahoo! forum with the 
individual messages) to PULL (web forum). In this you are excluding those 
who do handle their mail off-line and don't have an easy acces to Internet. 
So I do agree that some users are upset.

I've become user of iMatch through very positive comments on the forum of a 
genealogy software, developed in somewhat similar conditions as iMatch. 
There the transition was easier, because the list did remain and because 
you can subscribe to recieve a mail with the first posting of each thread 
of  a specific forum. The traffic is slowly, but steadily, shifting from 
the list to the forum.

See: http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/

I do have a 3,3 MB ADSL permanent connection with the Internet, so that 
will not be the problem.  But I've organised my work so that I handle most 
of my mail daily, and do postpone some to a specific day in the week. 
That's very easy with individual mails, but it requires an extra workload 
with digests.   I can't mark a digest with a "to investigate some items" 
label, "to reply some items" label, ...  (PS: I'm using Eudora).


Greetings,

Luc Matthijs
Evere (Brussels, Belgium)
[email protected]



 
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