[sdiy] Downside of unsubscribing

[Jason Proctor]

>The forums (electro-music, Muff Wiggler, etc) are very cool, but don't
>really serve the same purpose.  The nice thing about [sdiy] is that it's
>linear.  Too much info gets lost on the forums because there are so many
>pages, topics, etc.  There's a lot of information on this list too, but at
>least it comes one message at a time.

i like mailing lists because they are async nonblocking, whereas 
forums are sync blocking. i don't have the time to poll forums.

and there are other solutions to the "posting files" problem, as most 
of the modern mailing list providers show.

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/synth_diy/