On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:52:43AM -0800, Seth Brundle wrote: > > I really hate mailing lists - they are dinosaurs for this type of thing.
I really hate on-line forums. They're difficult to track because I must remember visit them daily. And I can't use them while disconnected. With e-mail, I download it all in one shot and read it anywhere. I can write responses, queue them up, and send 'em when I have a connection. > A web discussion board is a much more powerful and flexible tool for > this type of community. Hmm. E-mail has been around for a long, long time. I'm skeptical of this claim. > Thread tracking, archiving, searching E-mail gives you all of those. > dont have to download 50 emails a day just to monitor a couple > threads...cmon its 2003! That sounds like a problem with your choice of mail tools, unless I'm mis-understanding your gripe. > Cant we convert this into a discussion board or better yet just make > the usenet group mirror postable from google groups? I believe there is already a read-only NNTP mirror of this group. > There are 4 lists like this one where I have to continuously > subscribe and unsubscribe throughout the year when I want to > participate. Why must you subscribe and unsubscribe to participate? There's no membership requirement to post here. And you can always read the messages on-line. There are at least 2 web archives of this group. You've seen those, right? I know that Google has. > Also emails get mirrored on google groups for convenient spam > harvesting - its really a pain in the butt. How would using a web forum help that? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.8: up 55 days, processed 1,882,414,788 queries (389/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
