> On 26/05/2005, at 3:33 AM, Brian Corrie wrote: >> I am not sure that that is the best solution... I personally am not >> terribly good at going to forum's to check discussion groups. I think >> that there are others like me in that regard. Thus relying just on >> the portal may reduce the involvement of some people.
Darran Edmundson wrote: > I agree fully. I'm a mailing list person, going to web forums only > infrequently in search of solutions to specific problems. SNIP > web forums ... typically don't have the "reply and quote everything" > mentality of mailing lists, sig files, header and footer cruft, etc. This is an interesting sociological discussion ...and one that I find fascinating since it is occurring in what I think of as a very "geeky/techy" mailing list. This is the first "tech" list I've participated in where "bottom posting" and "snipping quoted material" netiquette is not the list norm. Do we blame the software (my interpretation of the above snippet) or is this a "user" issue? Because I don't think of this complaint as reflecting a "mentality of mailing lists" -- quite the opposite! Most mailing lists that I participate on do *not* have this problem. Perhaps it's because list norms are explicit? It's certainly not because we all use Pine! One of my problems with web forums is that they don't seem to quote "by default" and thus I have waded through many *useless* postings because they contain no context. I'm not faulting the software ... per se ... only noting that the tool contributes to an equal but opposite problem. Kathy -- Kathy E. Gill Department of Communication Digital Media Master's Degree Program University of Washington Box 353740 Seattle WA 98195 USA http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/
