Joe Zeff said the following at 02/22/2011 12:25 PM : > On 02/22/2011 11:16 AM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I cannot think of a single objective advantage that a forum possesses over >> an e-mail reflector. > > I can: if/when there are threads that don't interest me I can simply > ignore them and only look at posts that I either find interesting or > that I think I can help with. I don't have to go through my Inbox > manually filtering out messages that I'm not interested in or delete > them as they come up.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand (truly). Every day I see dozens of threads that don't interest me and... I ignore them. I too, "don't have to go through my Inbox manually filtering out messages that I'm not interested in or delete them as they come up". So I fail to understand the advantage you are claiming for fora. (Indeed, I never delete anything that comes in on a reflector. There's no reason to do so. But I admit that that's not on point, except insofar as it means that I have a local searchable archive.) Case in point: the subjects of the last twenty five threads for a particular reflector are displayed on my screen. Looking at the scribus reflector, I see at a glance that I have looked at exactly three of the last 25 threads here. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110222/0c86add4/attachment.pgp>
