On 1/26/2006 2:24 PM Christian Boltz wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 23:25 schrieb Jan Karjalainen:
- Dial-up connections aren´t fast enough for downloading a couple of hundred mails each day, many of which you don´t have any interest in.
*LoL* - this is the "funniest" reason for a web forum I ever heard.
The dial-up connections I know are paid per minute, so using a forum will be *much* more expensive than the 5 minutes you need to download your mails and 2 more minutes for sending your questions/replies. (I did this over years: 56k modem and suse-linux mailinglist with up to 200 mails per day. No problem so far - but my new 2 MBit line is better of couse ;-))
ACK.
I see another problem with forums: People are familar with using their mail client - and can have *one* mail client for all mailing lists. For forums, you have *another* user interface for each forum and need to login before posting. This sounds terrible to me, but maybe an average newbie ;-) thinks different.
ACK too.
One (THE?) problem that people may have with mailinglists could be filtering - if you don't, you will have a nice chaos in your inbox. Maybe the subscribe page should contain a "survive with 200 mails/day HOWTO" ;-)
Nice idea ;-) OJ -- "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." (Oscar Wilde)