Re: [GZG] Forums and lists, oh My!

> That I understand and it is not an uncommon response, the difference
> really lays in the way you set up your Email client to portray
> threads. Which was a god send to those of us who remember
> mailinglist's as digest only creatures that got delivered once a day
> through things like FIDO net. Many web forums take me back to those
> days.

I've used forums that do "thread" replies to the message they're
directly
responding to and they end up being completely unwieldly. YOu have
responses  at different levels of the page posted at different times and
you have to sort through them to find the recent ones you haven't read
yet. I find it combersome and chaotic. I promotes people sliding off
topic
and creating whole new topic threads within the same thread instead of
starting a whole new one. I've seen those interfaces and they never
promote posting on the boards.

> The last point is that this is all in support of Jon's company and
> games and if a single member takes a position that alienates a chunk
> of his customer base in his name, then then both Jon's ability to
> make sales is hurt as well as making the community that actively
> supports those game that much poorer.

Jon has just covered that.

Jaime

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