But it is far less "immediate". I sometimes have conversations with people stateside. I'll find an email when I get to work at 8am BST (British Summer Time, not Bering Straights Time :-). I'll respond.
Then the person it was aimed at will get to work at, say, 9am New York Time, respond, and we bounce ideas around for an hour or so before I go home. A forum relies on me (a) noticing their message at 8am my time - and forum scanning puts me off - I miss loads. Then (b) they've got to notice early morning their time that I responded, and (c) I've got to catch them at it! That just won't happen, in the normal course of events. One of the reasons I've abandoned many fora is that I keep coming across plenty of conversations that happened while I was away, but could easily have contributed to. And I get p*ssed off that my (I fool myself they are relevant) comments get ignored because the subject has now gone stale. Cheers, Wol. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Mitchell Sent: 21 April 2004 00:10 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: Re: We need a web based Forum! Why is that an argument? A "forum" is not the same as a chatroom. It is just as persistent as email. On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 16:38, Kate Stanton wrote: > >From New Zealand, the main argument against a forum is that we sleep while > you work and vice versa. It is 9:30am here now, and 7:30am in Sydney - > expect to hear similar story from Australians in about 2 hours. > **************************************************************************** This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 9911 7799, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. **************************************************************************** -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
