Crane, Matthew wrote: > That's debatable. > > If the average user reads a small set of messages. If the forum is > easily cached by a browser. If the mail readers use gmail or similar > and already download ads everytime they view a messsage. > > But yea the dvd comment was kind of stupid. > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Powell > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:10 PM > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Subject: Re: Why not use forum? > > On Friday 13 June 2008 13:07, Crane, Matthew wrote: > > Matt, > > there's a lot more crap transferred when using a forum (graphics + html > + the > actual message) than when using a mail client. The main disadvantage is > that > you have to be online to read a forum. For email you don't. > > Your DVD comment is irrelavant. > > Have you written forum software? If so you'll know it's not easily cached at all.
Also how do you get unread message notification on forums? With mail your clients can store whether you have read a message or not for every message (it is a distributed system so you only have yours to worry about), a forum has to do it for every user and every message... Most allow admin to set a hard limit timewise, but you yourself may want older messages marked as read... Also forums only do whole threads, not individual post in thread. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community