Hi, I know from experience that there really is no point whatsoever in discussing whether a forum is better than mail or not. People are just not going to agree. Just set up your forum and find out whether you're going to have subscribers.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads are listed at http://qery.us/zr On 18 okt 2011, at 15:49, Frank Missel wrote: >> boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Denis MUYS >> >>> 1. Several subject forums as mentioned >>> >> Mail can have as many subjects as desired > > Well, so can forum posts. The point is that the forum is divided into main > categories above the subject of the post > > >>> 2. Better view of threads with several levels being immediately >>> displayed >>> >> My mail client threads far better than most forums (fora?) > > I seriously doubt that :-). > I mean how much better than a totally ordered hierarchy with several levels > and forks can it be. > > But perhaps your mail client is very good. Which one do you use? > > Also, in a forum, you can see posts from a selected author sorted by date. > > >>> 3. Preview of entries and editing of them even after they are posted >>> (by the author) >> >> Which can be seen as a liability > > To be sure. > But then again until anyone has posted a reply. It can be used to correct a > typo or add info (where it makes sense rather than add a new post). > > >>> 4. Formatted rather than plain text >> >> Which mail is capable of > > Any formatting is stripped. At least it is so on the sqlite-users mail-list. > > >>> 5. No need for e-mail-addresses to be exposed >>> >> Couldn't a mailing list hide email addresses too? > > Perhaps it could. > I find, however, that e-mails are spread all over the place on the > sqlite-users mailing list. So it is not being done here. > That is one of my big objections as it invariable leads to spamming of the > members. > > >> On the other hand, I find mailing lists much better: I can read them off > line, I >> can also answer them off line (my client will send my answers as soon as > it >> gets online), I can archive any and/or all posts that I find valuable. > > I get messages from others when they are on their way to work or home > sitting in trains and busses. > Mostly people are just online through wireless or mobile networks. It is > considered "in" to be able to access the Internet at all times in all > places, so I find that point a bit moot nowadays. > > >> In fact, when fora (forums?) propose a mailing list interface (i.e. google >> groups), I prefer subscribing to them as a mailing list. >> >> Even better than mailing lists: newsgroups. Except my company only lets us >> use port 80 in addition to the mail gateway, so I can't use newsgroups. > > Who am I tell someone what to prefer. > I just find, however, it is a bit religious like choice of OS or gadgets. I > can see that e-mail lists can work and in the past could have a lot of > advantages. Nowadays, I find not as many good reasons to prefer them over a > proper forum which have some really nice features. > > > /Frank Missel _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
