> -----Original Message----- > From: Seth Brundle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hmmmm...seems like some Yahoo! employee has never used > Yahoo! Groups ;) I know a lot of people who refuse to use Yahoo Groups because of Yahoo's very open and ever-changing privacy policy. Most of the other combination web discussion board/mailing list systems I've seen are not very good at doing mail. They're web chat boards with mail notification tacked on. > If every package I used involved a mailing list for discussion, I would need to track > about 40 of them. How will web boards help? It's easier for me to glance through a stack of email folders (sorted by my mail rules) than it is for me to visit a bunch of web sites every day. Between logging in to each one individually, waiting for sluggish page loads, and digging through all the nested discussion folders it's just too time-consuming. It's much better for me to have my mail client collect everything in one spot for me. > Email is ok for thread tracking if subject integrity is > maintained, but most > email clients cant reliably collapse and expand threads. Microsoft Outlook seems to do it well. Are you telling me no one but Microsoft has been able to get this right? > Sorry, I didnt realize that I didnt need to subscribe to post - but again, > this is one of those rules for each mailing list that you must remember, > which is a PIA. For me the situation is worse with web forums, because every one of them works differently. It's confusing. Plus I have to remember a username and password for each one, and log on individually, instead of logging on once to my mail account. I avoid web forums for these reasons. They're just a lot more painful to use than a mailing list. They're also almost always really sluggish and full of graphical animated .signatures and brightly colored smiley-face cruft. Just not worth the trouble, unless you're a 14-year-old script kiddie who still thinks that stuff is fun. ;) I think if the MySQL list went to a web-only discussion board I'd probably stop paying attention to it. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
