[WARNING - NOT VIRUS SCANNED] Re: [sdiy] message board

[Rainer Buchty]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Veronica Merryfield wrote:

> For me, I prefere email lists. I know I will always get the traffic

Amen to that!

I just don't see why "modern" people are so obsessed with webforums.

Is it because they like to hide away behind stupid avatars?

Is it because they like to boast with even more stupid posting ranks?

Or is it because they are masochists and like either to wade through an 
existing thread from the beginning -- or always start reading threads 
last message first?

Why someone would like to prefer a pull medium over a push medium is 
beyond me. With mailing lists the messages come to you. You don't have 
to visit a gazillion of places to see what's new there. You don't need 
to receive messages that someone wrote something new into a thread you 
subscribed to and might want to visit that very website to check it out 
-- I just receive the message and decide whether I want to answer it or 
not.

And there must be something to it, otherwise we wouldn't see the success 
of RSS feeds, somewhat mimicking the behavior of good old usenet in 
terms of creating a unified feed of information from several sources.

Some say, webforums are a great thing because only the web stuff is 
found by Google. However, some forums are closed and not even readable 
without logging in first; besides, an automatically created (and 
open-for-reading) web-archive (like the one Mailman creates anyway) is 
visible to Google.

Rainer (all in favor of traditional mailing lists)