On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:07 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 8:15 PM, Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When you find one who is more successful at handling very-high-volume > > traffic and contributing meaningfully to it with fora rather than > > mailing lists, let me know... I'd like to meet that person, for I've > > never found someone like that. > > > You sound like you need gmail. Should I send you an invite? Good Lord, no. Thanks for your good intentions, but I can see nothing that Gmail would offer me that my Linux-based notebook (and my 60GB email account) don't already give me, and indeed it would offer me a whole lot less. But you *have* missed the point. I'm on the run right now and don't have time to explain, but in brief: I think fora... - are slower to use - are slower to browse - are slower to respond - don't let me work offline (as I am doing now, for instance) - don't let me filter/search/manage massive amounts of traffic - don't let me store my own archives and copies - waste massive amounts of bandwidth - require a mouse... - ...and a lot of patience for EACH page to load after EACH click - and much, much more As someone who answers more questions than I ask, and as someone who reads a large part of the 400 messages I get per day, and as someone who has been doing this (Usenet, mailing lists, fora) for almost as long as they've all been around, I can categorically tell you that a forum is much less functional for experts. And we're going to be less valuable as a community if we have fewer people answering fewer questions, aren't we? Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
