I am with you jeremy... Web based discussion boards are horrible. I never remember to go daily. I can write my responses to this on the train and send them when I get to my desk.
Rich >> 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] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
