On 7 April 2015 at 20:50, jdow <j...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Forums don't work after a remarkably short time unless there is a strong > moderator presence and participation. For over a decade I moderated one of > the most active Amiga developer related forums on any online service. I have > grown to prefer mailing lists. They don't search any worse than forums, > arguably better. And mailing lists tend to feature fewer discussion chains > that directly contradict each other's advice absent strong participation by > well clued moderators. I also have found that mailing lists are handier for > "browsing" or scanning. Look over all the message subject lines, at least. > You find things worth opening that way, things you'd never find on forums or > would tend to ignore because they take too long to load pages and generally > do not allow proper comment chains. For people who want to maintain > themselves up to date with the community thoughts the process of reading > messages sucks dead ponies through garden hoses.
Basically it's unfortunate that usenet is effectively dead. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
