Re: message board system

[email protected] (Tom Hughes)
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          Simon <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm willing to hear any pro's/con's or concerns regarding this idea.  I
> joined this mailing list only two days ago and was really surprised at the
> amount of messages posted daily.  I would really love to have all these
> great ideas kept in a more readable form.

Cons - message boards are pull not push and they generally have
very poor user interfaces compared to mail/news readers. They also
have to be operated online which is a real problem for people who
aren't in countries with flat rate internet access costs.

A mailing list backed up by a web archive for those odd occasions
when you need to go back in history beyond the amount of history
you keep locally seems like the optimum solution to me.

Tom

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