> back a solution if I've found it elsewhere). What sticks in my mind is the > fact > that some time later, I forget whether it was months or longer, I came across > my post when searching for something related, and there was a reply. Clearly a > decent forum would notify me of replies to my thread, which this one, for some > reason, did not.
The point is that a forum is not something you join for a one time question. Nor is a mailing list. A forum, as well as a mailing list, is something you join to participate in discussions. Say that you instead had asked that question on a mailing list. For how long would you have continued to receive mails from that list? And most forums DO have e-mail notifications. But I hate them, because if I you them I get like dozens of e-mail telling me there are new posts in the forum. For forums with very little activity I usually bookmark the "Search for new posts since my last visit"-link. /Peter
