View from the UK, FWIW. Given a choice, I'll stick with the email format. I do visit certain forums, and participate therein; but the format of; the people belonging to; and the education received from this list greatly exceeds the value of all the forums put together.
Just my two pennyworth..... Ted ________________________________ From: John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, 19 April, 2010 13:02:44 Subject: Re: Is there usenet interface possible for this group? On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:53 AM, diane wrote: > At 1:50 AM -0400 4/19/10, Dan wrote: >> At 11:43 PM -0400 4/18/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: >>> or we could have a forums site. >> >> To be honest, going pure forums is a deal breaker with me. > > > Ditto. No forums for me, hate them. Email is great, it all comes here and I > can filter it to separate it. Forums I have to go to individually and I've > had one too many crash on me taking valuable data. > > My.02 > > Diane > If it works why fix it? Took me a while to get used to the lists, they're much better than those non responsive forum web sites, here you can get answers from knowledgeable folks fast and not have to wait for days till someone reads the forum. The lists are truly interactive. A consolidation of some may be OK but I belong to all of them so I get most of the postings I'm interested in Forums are for chatters IMHO:-( John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list