On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:04 +0000, Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 20:45, Jan Jansen wrote: [snip] > 1) A mailing list separates content from interface but a forum doesn't. The And all those pictures and animated smiley faces make them look like they were designed by particularly silly pre-pubescent girls. > advantage in this is that I can use my favourite email client and you can > use your favourite mail client and we can read the same list. A forum has > the same interface for all users. If everyone uses Windows XP, who cares (or notices?) if all forums look the same???? > 2) forums are harder to search than mailing lists. So who searches? > 3) most forums have problems threading, (some don't, see slashdot) Do people who top-post and use Outlook really know what threads are? > 4) if we had both forums and Mailing lists it would spilt the body of people > in half. > > 5) whats wrong with mailing lists? Because particularly silly pre-pubescent girls don't know how to use them? They're haaaaaaard..... There's no smiley faaaaceeeessss..... They're booooooorrrrrrriiiiiinnnnngggggg!!!!!!!! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "...always eager to extend a friendly claw"
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