On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:52:31 -0500
kitchm <kit...@tutanota.com> wrote:
>The problem is more fundamental.
>
>In all things, we need to seek more commonality and
>simplicity in our lives. In computer related issues, I have
>found over the years that people who do not understand how
>things work (thanks to the poor educational systems) simply
>like to add more complexity because they do not know to
>follow industry standards. The other possibility is that
>some do not want to change to better methodologies because
>of a sad conservative mind-set.
>
>In the case of digital communications, everything is based
>upon voice (telephone), written words (document files and
>e-mail) and the visual (videos and web pages). When it
>comes to forums, either for discussion and/or for help, the
>interface has traditionally been thru the browser window
>into industry standard forum software, with the e-mail part
>used only for notifications and private messages.
>
>With that said, mailing lists were the old method before
>there was a graphical user interface available. There is
>little reason for its use any longer, and quite frankly, I
>cannot think of a good one.
>
>For this day and age, using anything other than standard
>forum software is detrimental to usability and productivity.
> That's just how it is, and there is no reason to go
>backwards in these things.
>
>We do not download forum databases; rather we expect the
>hosts to maintain that for our use.
>
Using software because everyone else is using it sounds very Microsoft to me.
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