RE: Re: [OFFICIAL] - The NEW user forum

Even though I wouldn't endorse Mr Alford's prickly approach to posting his
thoughts, I have some sympathy for his point of view on this topic. As a
regular reader and very occasional poster to the Imatch mail list, I read it
only through email. I also receive many other lists via email. That's the
way I work and I don't want to change it. 

In particular, I don't want to convert to RSS for the half or so of my lists
that support it (also the implementations that I tried don't identify the
poster in the headings list and that's one of the ways I filter), and I
don't want to use a web browser in addition to Outlook to go through recent
postings to find the occasional nugget.

In addition, I don't like receiving digested postings as they take more time
for me to review quickly and skip what I don't think is important or
interesting.

In my case, I registered for the new forum, set up my personalized home page
and won't go there until I have a problem. True, the site is better
organized and hopefully, has a better search engine. Great, that means that
I will be able to find a fix to a problem when I have one. What it also
means that I will be less likely to contribute my two cents when a newbie or
whoever, has a problem that I could help with. More will be on the shoulders
of the Imatch acolytes that hang around the forums. Perhaps that's good,
maybe I might mislead someone - not being an "expert". I imagine there will
be less contribution from the occasional posters.

I think it's a loss - simply because a proper (i.e. not digested) email
option has been dropped. Whether this was for technical or economic reason,
I don't know: too bad, nonetheless. 

Tom Moore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moritz [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [imatchuserforum] Re: [OFFICIAL] - The NEW user forum
> 
> 
> Maybe it has something to do with being permanently logged into the forum.
> When I logged in, it asked me if the site should remember me (You need to
> allow cookies). If it is not that, then I have no idea.
> 
> Moritz
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:22:04 +0100, Arno Waldus <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Moritz schreef op 31-1-2005 16:36:
> >
> >> Or, using Opera as your browser, email and RSS feed client, you have
> >> everything in one application. I have not noticed an increase in time
> >> for
> >> browsing through the messages of the RSS feed. But again, what is wrong
> >> with spending a little more time on something you are interested in?
> >
> > Moritz,
> >
> > I don't use Opera, but Mozilla Thunderbird instead. It also supports RSS
> > feeds. But... most of the messages are not readable. I get the message
> > that access is denied. I need to logon.
> > Do you get the same message? If no, what do I miss?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -- Arno
> 
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