On Wednesday 14 April 2004 23.32, Josh Berkus wrote:
Good grief no. Web forums are horrible in comparison to a mailing list. Much worse search capabilities, you have to sit and hit 'refresh' to see if there are any replies, no decent way of filtering and just generally 'no thanks'
Not worse than *this* mailing list.
explain?
Somewhere there must be some combined Web-forum-and-mail-list tool. I'd kinda prefer a forum, just becuase the traffic on this list is so high. I think a lot of AOL or yahoo account people are kept off this list becuase of the traffic volume.
Then they should learn about filtering. I once had occasion to actually see in person someone who complained about the high volume. It turned out that he put all his mail in the inbox, he had no clue that he could create folders and automatically filter list mail into them. No wonder it got to be too much. If I had dumped everything into the inbox, I'd be crying like a baby after a week. Education is the key. Teach them the better way to work.