1. Don't most user forum implementations have an email feature so that you can ask to be sent email of any posts? Everybody that likes email can register for email notifications while everybody that likes user forums can use the user forum directly. The user forum will satisfy both preferences. 2. Why should everyone archive all the messages themselves duplicating and wasting disk space when it could be done in one place by the owner's of the user forum database? 3. If the worry is that the owner of the user forum database will go away and all of the messages are lost, then the same worry happens if relying on other mailing lists archival sites when they go away. 4. I would think a quality product would provide a means to transfer the user forum database to someone else rather than just pulling the plug.
--- Shawn Castrianni CM Chief Architect Landmark Halliburton Drilling, Evaluation and Digital Solutions Building 2 2107 City West Blvd. Houston, TX 77042 Work: 713-839-3086 Cell: 832-654-0888 Fax: 713-839-2758 -----Original Message----- From: DuckPuppy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Plea for a forum Actually, I don't think I could even track 50 different lists if there's sufficient traffic on any of them. I don't have that kind of time in my day. I have about 5, and I end up ignoring most of the mails if the subject isn't pertinent to me at that moment. On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:50:48AM -0400, Patrick Aikens wrote: >> At least the replies on this thread have been mostly civil - I was >> worried >> when I saw Kili's reply that we would have a string of troll-bait >> like his. > > Please accept my apologies for my rude mail, that was yet another > bad hair day (happens too often these days). > > For the topic (which is offtopic, so this will be my second and > last reply on it): can you track 50 different web forums? I can't, > but I can track 50 different mailing lists (and I'm not even using > something like procmail -- it's all flooding my inbox). > > Ciao, > Kili ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message.
