I rarely post, but usually read, so I'm chiming in
here.
A more fundamental issue to to me is "push" vs. "pull."
The basic problem with web-based fora is one has to go to
each of them to read them (and typically have to work through
several layers to read several topics), versus with mailing
lists having all of them come to one place. If one subscribes
to 20 or 30 or more mailing lists on a variety of topics, the
web-based approach becomes quite a barrier.
And for many years now, it has been in many or most POP and
IMAP clients a simple issue to filter out discussion topics
that are not of interest.
Pat
On Feb 18, 2008 10:52 AM, Mark R. Harris <
brokerharris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Spelling is a minor issue; the full range of
functionalities is a major
> issue. A key point: the way Yahoo Groups is set up,
I can receive all
> emails; a daily digest; or no emails at all. What I
can't do is decide which
> topics and threads are of interest to me and receive
update notices on just
> those topics. Once you have gotten used to the
ability to do that, the lack
> of ability to do it is frankly somewhat infuriating.
Think of all the
> annoyance that was created by the endless
back-and-forth on Altman's The
> Long Goodbye, which could have been easily resolved
if people could decide
> to subscribe to that thread or not, based on their
preference.
>
> Formats move on and improve. The "no frills"
approach strikes me as
> antiquated and very lacking in user-friendliness,
and I am scarcely a
> technological determinist.
>
> Mark
>
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