I prefer the forum format myself, where I can go and skim over new
messages at my leisure (rather than having them "pushed" into my
E-mail in-box), follow up one ones that interest me, ignore others.
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Viet-Tam Luu (a.k.a. "Tam")
SFR-SCCA Solo2 #149 T1-CS, #149 EM
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On 5/15/06, Johann Schubert <jes@rx7.org> wrote:
> Viet-Tam Luu wrote:
> > The ba-autox mailing list has served us well but I wonder if it's not
> > time to think about simply supplanting it with the online forum
> > format, for example baautox.com.
> >
> > I won't go into the pros and cons of either format (though others are
> > welcome to) but I think the online forum has many advantages over the
> > mailing list, and few (if any) disadvantages.
>
> I subscribe to various mailing lists and am a member of a few forums... I
>find
> the forums to be incredibly difficult to deal with, especially when trying to
> get questions answered that haven't already been posted. I can go months with
> out logging into a forum, where I usually won't ignore an email list for more
> than a week or so. The information on the email lists I subscribe to
>generally
> have some value... whereas forums have a lot of garbage to wade through.
>
> To me the obvious difference is the air of a forum vs an email list.
> * email lists have people with names.
> * forums have anonymous members with "handles".
>
> IMHO the short answer is that the ba-autox mailing list has served us well and
> will likely continue to do so into the future... regardless of the existence
>of
> an b.a. autox forum.
>
> John
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