Alon Altman wrote:
The difference is the technical difficulty of posting to the mailing
list which requires both surfing the web archive having a mail
account and using a mail client or a webmail.
What's the difference between using webmail to compose a message to
the list
or posting on a forum? You can get a free webmail account in hundreds of
sites. Registration for gmail, for example, is quick and easy. If you use
firefox, than the gmail compose plugin makes sending mail from the
archive
as easy as posting to a forum.
My mail supplier has encoding problems and so does some commonly used
mail clients (as you know from recent discussions on hamakors mailing lists)
The Amuta keeps lagging behind the technology and the local public in
this matter
Forums require people to visit them periodically to read new messages.
There is no "push" mechanism, and new message notifications don't really
count because it requires you to open a web browser for each new
message on
the forum.
And I thought you concider the push method to be not a proper netiquette.
Anyway I can say that personaly I don't like the push mechanism you
enforce on me by limiting the discussion to mailing list only (I guess
there are others like me).
(compare the traffic on Israeli web forums and the transport on Israeli
mailing lists).
I do not know where you get your data,
I'll try to be more clear - concerning foss "compare the traffic on
Israeli web forums and the transport on Israeli
mailing lists".
Hamakor is by far lagging behind in this issue.
Uri offered a synchronised forum and mailing list on linmagazine since
more than a year ago. This mode gives the participants of a discussion
*free* choice.
Dotan
