On Sunday 24 September 2006 14:16, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > So, what are the advantages of changing to a web forum which are so > > compelling that not wanting to give up the advantages of mail looks like > > fear of change? > > None as far as I can tell. They're not properly threaded, there's no > way to easily and effectively killfile people or subjects, there is no > filtering Webforums are to communications as email/newsgroups/BBSes were in > the mid-80s. Why anyone would want to go back 20 years is beyond me. Even BBS's had offline QWK packet readers for offline message reading...those often had more features than the BBS's internal message reader, and got all the phone line tie ups out of the way in advance... -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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