[sdiy] message board

[Mattias Rickardsson]

On 29/06/07, Randaleem <randaleem at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ...
> I'm also new here; having avoided it until now due to
> the email-required nature.
> ...
> Two key differences: They don't fill up my mailbox

Seriously, 1 MB of text per week can't possibly be a problem in a
modern society. Check out how to use your email client! :-)

Since this topic is all about personal taste and internet religion,
and since neither this mailing list nor the forums out there will
change sides, it's quite pointless... :-) ...but I can just say that
I'm personally a mailing list person that rarely subscribe to forums
(apart from occasionally, when I have one or two questions about some
subject, and finds some forum to live as a parasite on for a couple of
days) - of reasons that are hard to pinpoint. Emails just feel more
direct, I have them all here on my computer, several years of
discussions and advice, available and searchable, not hidden somewhere
on the web. That's my personal taste.

Hehe, an interesting little indication of the more natural feeling of
mailing lists vs forums is the little email notifications from forum
replies that just makes it sooo handy... and shows that the use of
JUST emails would be even more handy. ;-)

> ... And replying to a post is
> easier. I just had to cut your address from the to box
> after pressing reply, then cut and paste the SDIY
> reply to addy into the to To: box. Then I can send
> this reply.

This is my only HUGE annoyance of sdiy and AH. When I read an email
from the list, and press reply, of course I want the reply to go to
the list. Where else?

I do know that this is my personal preference and that many people
feel the opposite - and that some people eat living insects or wear
high-heel shoes that it's impossible to walk properly in - but in the
case of mailing list replies and Reply-To adresses, wouldn't this be a
simple and very reasonable thing to have as a per-user setting? (Is
there perhaps one already? I admit I should go here more often.:)


/mr


PS.
Fwiw, Yahoogroups has been unreliable for me to say the least,
sometimes delaying emails and not delivering all my messages and never
telling me why, etc. I'm not gonna discuss it here, but I really do
not recommend it for a new design.