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

Yeah, I love the mailing list too! I use Gmail, and I have a label too
for it, so I don't get them directly on the Inbox...

On 2/25/08, Carl, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For what it is worth, I love the mailing list.  In Outlook I created a
> rule that if the subject has [ttdpatch] in it, to move it to the TTD
> folder and play a wav file (one of TTD's, of course).  This way I can
> just go into the folder to see the traffic.  I don't have the time or
> luxury to visit the forums much.
>
> BC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Csaba Varga
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:29 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ttdpatch] Re: A forum is better than a mailing list??
>
>
> >  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.
>
> You seem to be following a lot of different discussions, and I can
> accept that it is easier with mailing lists. Most people, however, don't
> follow zillions of discussions, so they have to cope with only few web
> forums. On the other hand, people prefer to reserve their mailboxes for
> messages they're interested in, especially if they don't have much
> storage space in their inbox. (Plus, if I attach a 1MB attachment to one
> of my forum posts, no one will complain, people who don't need it just
> don't download it. Try attaching a 1MB file to an
> e-mail...)
>
> If you have said that you personally prefer mailing lists, I would have
> just accepted that. But you've said that web forums will never be better
> than mailing lists, and this doesn't seem to be the case. Just look at
> all the people happily using TT-Forums. Why aren't they asking for a
> dozen mailing lists instead of the forum?
>
> And why was this mailing list silent for a year, while TTDPatch
> discussion was happily going on the TT-Forums? By your logic, people
> would have abandoned the webforum to use the superior mailing list...
>
> >  If you use threading, you can ignore threads and you mark entire
> > threads  as read.
>
> I would still need to enable the ignore function for every new thread
> I'm not interested in. While on a web forum, well, I just ignore those
> threads.
>
> >  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.
>
> That's why topic reply notifications were invented. If a topic you're
> interested in gets a new reply, you get an e-mail about it. There are no
> new notifications until you visit the topic, so you won't get zillion
> copies of the same mail for a popular topic.
>
> >  Here's a screenshot from my newsreader:
> >  http://jessen.ch/files/knode-screenshot2.jpeg
> >
> >  Can you produce a similar overview for your forums?
>
> Why would I need to? (And they're not _my_ forums, mind you. I'm just a
> member.) The opening page shows you which forums (the rough equivalent
> of a mailing list) have new replies, and I don't really care about the
> amount of unread posts, just about whether there is something new. And a
> web forum doesn't need a threading feature, because users manage threads
> explicitly.
>
> I repeat: I can understand if you dislike webforums. Just don't pretend
> that the whole word agrees with you on that.
>
> Regards
> Csaba Varga
>
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