* Defiant Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040103 15:42]:
> I was wondering why a mail list instead of a forum?
>
> It would make things so much easier just to enter a search than to read through
> hundreds of archived mail's
> for a quick answer, furthermore it can send e-mails notifying users of new posts
> just like a mail list.
>
> We have several servers and I imagine others on this list also have the space to
> host a forum and
> icon board and phpbb take about 20 seconds to setup, so I ask again why no forum?
>
> The only forum I have found is in french and it has no language selection for non
> french users.
>
> Any ideas why there are no forums for rebol users?
>
>
> Thank's for your time & sorry if that sounded like a rant... -Mj.
There's no disputing taste I guess, but I can roar through
my email using Mutt, and prefer it that way, but there's nothing
wrong with options -- back in the early days of CGI, I use
to build forums for customers....
> A forum is more of a community, better organized and answers for newbs like myself
> are readily available.
Yes, I would think a forum does 'model' a community well. In either
case it is important not to 'overload' a thread, but to create a new
one or a new subject as the content changes -
IMHO -
question: can a forum such as you describe above 'mirror' a ML?
Also, isn't forum access speed controlled by bandwidth - since
it is web-based?
I do a lot of reseach with newsgroups and slrn/slrnpull which makes
it exceeding quick to navigate among subject threads, also very
nice.
cheers
tim
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