Rich Heimlich wrote:
William Hurst wrote:
Enough! Enough! Folks, we are getting an extra portion of e-mail on
this list due to the release of V.6. Is this a really good time to
engage in this discussion of changing the way we deal with the new
version? Is this a really good time to ask the kind people at Millenia
to even think about changing the mailing list to a forum? I'm sure
they have more important work to do.
Bill, forgive the irony, but your post, to me, underscores exactly the
very need for exactly everything you suggest we should avoid
discussing. A web forum would allow those items (and many others) to
co-exist without people saying, "Oh my God, there are too many messages!"
Since the 1970s I have used the Internet. I have been using
email since the 1980s and Usenet and the web since 1990s.
A couple differences between mail list and web forum are
where the messages are stored and how they may be sorted.
With lists I have the choice of storing them on my computer
or leaving them stored at a host. With web forums they
are only stored at a host. Multiple forums are in multiple
places where it takes more time to go from forum to forum
as apposed to go from email folder to email folder. Emails
may be read off line. Not so with forum messages.
With lists I may sort by subject, date, sender, etc., whatever
my email client or web mail service offers. I may be wrong, but
there seems to be no way to sort web forum messages or topics.
Today I sorted our list by subject and read all messages on
this subject before replying. When sorting by subject I may
select which group of messages I wish to read just as
easily as with a forum. And just as with a forum I may also
select not to read certain topics. With the list I may delete
messages from my email program. I may find them again
in the archives. I can't delete forum topics, so they remain,
and perhaps get in my way.
Whether Legacy continues with the list or switches to forum
format, the number of messages may be the same. The subject
titles may be the same.
IMHO,
JimS
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