Hi,
> I prefer web forums by a small margin because of the richer content and
> better organization, but I can certainly appreciate other's preferences
> and reasons for an email list. I would use both interfaces if they were
> available (although I despise Yahoo's web interface and avoid it as much
> as possible).
What I like is to have an email forum for the discussion portion, and
a wiki for the information that you want to keep.
Web forums are ok if you only belong to a couple, but start to get
tiring when the number approaches say 100. I can easily deal with 100
email based forums because its easy to setup rules. Polling a large
number of web forums is a drag.
If you want searchability in a Yahoo forum, then you should consider
using gmail (I can search through all of the email lists I belong to
quite effectively), or use a tool like:
http://www.pgoffline.com/(not sure if this still works with the recent Yahoo shuffle, but it
will probably be updated soon if it doesn't work).
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Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/