Re: [GZG] List moderation was: Dear John

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On  May19 08, at 01:21, Eli Arndt wrote:

> I am in the pro forum camp. I find forums are easier to follow  
> specific
> threads and to weed out those threads you don't care to follow.  
> They are
> also easier to look up older threads without having to navigate a  
> separate
> archive site. At least this has been my experience.

I have the opposite experience, forums tend to be slower for me. I  
can scan my Email in a much shorter time, forums I have to open each  
thread to find if there is something interesting, or if I find	
something to reply too it might be buried in the middle and be	
impossible to meaningfully respond to. Forums also are very  
restrictive when it comes to spawning sub-threads when a topic	
bifurcates into multiple related threads.

Mail comes to me, thus I pay attention to it, a web forum I have to  
go to, much less likely for me to check on a daily basis. i.e. forums  
fragment and slow my participation.

I wouldn't mind forums if they could be set up to forward new topics  
and posts to email as well as receive replies from email also.

Evyn MacDude
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