MOTM

I'm with Andre, Jason, Ben, and John. If I can't get the posts  
delivered in real time via email, I will never use the forum. I only  
go to the Yahoo group web page to see why it's not delivering emails  
to me! I've seen a lot of forums and none has ever provided the ease  
of searching and archiving I get from a mailing list. John's points  
about this are right on.

skw



On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:40 AM, John Mahoney wrote:

> I'm with Andre, Jason, and Ben in that I prefer email discussion
> lists to forums. A forum has higher "friction".
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> Forums do have some advantages, as John Rice said. In actual use,
> though, the categorization does not hold up. The topic of a thread
> usually deviates from the title (subject) assigned to that thread --
> just like with email lists, but it's worse when it happens in a forum.
>
> Forums are never as organized as they are supposed to be. Email
> lists, of course, don't even pretend to be organized. ;-)  But, with
> email lists, it's easy to scan through every message. Serendipity  
> favors email.
>
> It might seem that a forum is better for archives, but in reality you
> need a good search feature for a forum or an email archive. For truly
> archive-worthy reference material, a wiki is a better solution,  
> anyway.
>
> Whether you switch to a forum or not, I suggest that you add a wiki,
> too. (With a password that's given on request to keep out the  
> spammers.)
>
> John
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