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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