On 1/26/2006 2:24 PM Christian Boltz wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 23:25 schrieb Jan Karjalainen:
>> - Dial-up connections aren´t fast enough for downloading a couple of >> hundred mails each day, many of which you don´t have any interest in. > > *LoL* - this is the "funniest" reason for a web forum I ever heard. > > The dial-up connections I know are paid per minute, so using a forum > will be *much* more expensive than the 5 minutes you need to download > your mails and 2 more minutes for sending your questions/replies. > (I did this over years: 56k modem and suse-linux mailinglist with up to > 200 mails per day. No problem so far - but my new 2 MBit line is better > of couse ;-)) ACK. > I see another problem with forums: > People are familar with using their mail client - and can have *one* > mail client for all mailing lists. > For forums, you have *another* user interface for each forum and need to > login before posting. This sounds terrible to me, but maybe an average > newbie ;-) thinks different. ACK too. > One (THE?) problem that people may have with mailinglists could be > filtering - if you don't, you will have a nice chaos in your inbox. > Maybe the subscribe page should contain a "survive with 200 mails/day > HOWTO" ;-) Nice idea ;-) OJ -- "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." (Oscar Wilde)
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