Especially in GMail, your methods wouldn't work. If I just want to find the e-mail my friend Bob sent me last month sometime with the name of that website I can't remember, just quickly searching for "Bob website" in the GMail search bar would probably hit dozens/hundreds of archived mailing list e-mails in addition to the one I want, regardless of using labels and archiving. If I DILLIGENTLY labelled every e-mail, I could restrict the search to a given label. WAY too much time managing my e-mail at that point. Life's too short to spend that many hours sorting and tagging messages. Yeah, I could register another GMail account, but now I have yet another e-mail address to maintain - I already monitor too many as it is - I'd probably never even see the messages anymore since I'd probably never feel I had the time to look at it. I hate the idea of mailing lists in general - in a perfect world I would only want mail addressed DIRECTLY to me and addressing ONLY me in the body sent to my e-mail account - it's for personal messages only. Right now I tend to ignore mailing list traffic out of habit because of its volume. This thread only caught my eye as my hopefulness for a forum I could visit only when necessary or had time to devote to it piqued my interest.
Speaking of time, I suppose I've already spent too much time on this anyway. My interest has already been answered - no forum, not likely in the future. Time to delete this thread and set up the kill filter for the subject. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Niklas Matthies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 2008-06-23 at 07:50h, Patrick Aikens wrote on ivy-user: > : > > I have GMail, and it's certainly not a replacement for a decent > > forum - even with it's unlimited space, it's just silly to think > > that ALL the Ivy users with GMail or an IMAP account should store > > their own local cache of messages so they can search them later. > > Personally, I highly value a "local cache" for offline searching and > for not losing the archive when the forum moves or shuts down. > > > I clean out all mailing list traffic on a regular basis - I don't > > have any Ivy mailing list posts more than a week old. I don't want > > it cluttering up hits in my personal mail when I search it, and I > > certainly don't want to have to include search modifiers EVERY time > > I search my mail to omit all the mailing lists. > > The usual way to handle this is to use saved searches/virtual folders > and/or to have mailing list messages auto-saved to dedicated folders > (and other mails too to their respective folders). > > Really, once you've got accustomed to a powerful e-mail client, you > may realize how much better that is than any forum UI in existence and > than having to use a dozen forums on a dozen different sites. People > who prefer mailing lists over forums usually don't do so because they > are old-fashioned but because they find forum UIs to constitute a > serious degradation of their user experience compared to their e-mail > client. > > -- Niklas Matthies > -- Frank Lloyd Wright - "TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
