It would appear that on Apr 30, Mikha ben Avraham did say: > Personally, I prefer forums to mailing lists. Forums give the ability to > separate different categories of problems and discussion. > > The major advantage I see for a forum compared to a mailing list is that > a forum is more of a "browsing" medium, and mailing list just stuff > everything down your throat. I want to check what sort of software > problems people have, but to do so with a mailing list is intimidating > (when I didn't check my email for a few days and found over a thousand > emails, I certainly didn't read them all). > > Right now, I go to fedoraforum.org for help, but it doesn't have nearly > the support base these mailing lists have. A combination of the mailing > list membership with a forum would be nervana and would solve what I > believe to be the "taming" problem. I'm betting your not using a threaded mail reader... Or you haven't configured your mail reader to use it <grin> When I first joined this list I wasn't using pines threaded format And I could see what you mean by "stuffing everything down your throat" Now I separate my lists with filters, and use threading... much better. AND it uses MY choice in interface. That is I use pine cause I like it! And I suppose I could even filter on interesting keywords to further divide up the volume into manageable folders if I wanted to. But if your really keen on the browser interface, why not filter the bulk of the list traffic out of your regular mail box. Then use a browser to follow things in the archive instead... Personally I wouldn't like to do that, but the archive is up to date. I just checked and your message dated today is already there. So if you really want to browse for it. you can. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
