>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> writes:
Ryan> I like mailing lists better because the conversation is delivered Ryan> directly to me without me having to do anything, beyond having my Ryan> email program open, which I generally already do. I hear the "new Ryan> message" sound and can see that new messages have arrived in the Ryan> folders into which I sort my mailing list messages. I prefer mailing lists that have NNTP servers attached, so I don't have to pull down anything I don't want to read. Ryan> Whereas with a forum, I have to constantly go visit the forum web Ryan> site to see if any new messages have arrived. I seldom remember to Ryan> do so. It has gotten better with RSS feeds. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
