On Tuesday 22 February 2011 14:25:39 Joe Zeff wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I often ask questions on forums. OTOH I don't scan all the posts in any forum every day. I do scan all the posts from this forum every day in the mail folder I have dedicated to that purpose. I have similar folders for about 20 or more mailing lists. I also have individual folders for my customers. So I like mailing lists and I like forums (fora?). But I visit my favorite mailing lists (this one, self-publishing, etc.) every day, reading or at least passing over each post. I don't object to a forum. But I will ask most of my questions and answer what I can on this mailing list, every day. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
