Re: Re: A forum is better than a mailing list??

Csaba Varga wrote:
>> Just use a proper email agent - a webforum will never be better than a
>> mailinglist.
> 
> So, you're saying that receiving zillions of e-mails every day and
> ignoring 90% of them is better than having a proper forum and watch
> only topics you're interested in? 

Certainly.  I use a newsreader and I don't need to swap to a zillion
different websites to follow various forums.  Also requires a lot less
mouse-clicking.  The same is possible with e.g. thunderbird.

>Are you saying that one mailserver sending those zillion messages to
every other
>subscriber is easier than a webserver serving topics when you ask for it?

It's easier for me, yes.

> And, by the way, I _am_ using a proper mail client. It would still
> take me a lot of time to sift through e-mails I'm not interested in,
> if every message related to TTD would land in my inbox.

If you use threading, you can ignore threads and you mark entire threads
as read.

I subscribe to maybe 40-50 mailing lists, of which I actively read maybe
20 or 25 every day.  Not everything of course.  If I had to swap from
one website every time I wanted to see if a list had any updates, I'd
never finish.

Here's a screenshot from my newsreader:
http://jessen.ch/files/knode-screenshot2.jpeg

Can you produce a similar overview for your forums?


/Per

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