[BC] If you wonder why email is getting worse

[Al Stewart]

Both have their places. I like the way the BC list works ... it's easy to scan an filter. Web forums I use are okay ... but for me they tend to be slow, so I don't look unless I have extra time.

Al

------ At 02:39 PM 12/07/2006 -0500, nakayle at gmail.com wrote: -------
  

>Webforums are more difficult to manage and archive than e-mail??  I
>don't see that at all.  All posts can be archived indefinitely- some
>forums I visit have archives going back years with search functions to
>find specific topics or authors.  All posts relating to a particular
>discussion are kept congregated together so you can view them in
>context without all the endless quoting that goes on in email. You can
>easily skip over topics that you're not interested in, and see photos
>and charts without downloading risky attachments.  As someone who has
>used both webforums and email lists for years, I think webforums win
>hands down.
>
>- Nat Kaye
>
>On 12/7/06, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:
>>On Wednesday 06 December 2006 08:19 pm, Bernie Courtney wrote:
>>> Wouldn't a lot of these problems be eliminated, and a better, more organized
>>> archive created by just moving away from an email listserv to a web based
>>> bulletin board running vbulletin or the like?
>>
>> I'd say not.
>> Web pages are considerably more difficult ( IMHO ) to manage and archive
>> than e-mail, especially off-line.
>>
>>--
>>Cowboy
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Al Stewart
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