[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk]

The pint with the wolvelug mailing list is it is pretty much inscrutable
to a newcomer, I mean 67 emails where just a few threads would have sufficed.
The thing with mailing lists they tend to cause a subject to grow out of
all proportion to it's worth.

Mad Malc



>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:21:02 +0100
>From: Steve Parkes <sparkes at westmids.biz>
>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?
>Reply-To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
>Deusiah wrote:
>
>>You know just 30 minutes ago I was thinking what is the point of
>>mailing lists? I'm guessing they were around before forums or
>>something?
>>  
>>
>mailing lists predate the web full stop
>
>>With forums you can edit your posts, have all the threads displayed in
>>a nice legible format. It doesn't  take up any space in your email
>>account and you have a permanent reachable record for anything that's
>>been discussed. Fair enough you can look through the archives but I
>>don't think they are so accessible as a forum.
>>  
>>
>editing posts can be abused,
>threads are displayed in any email client worth it's salt
>get a larger email account
>get a larger email account / mailman records every message and google 
>archives it
>
>forums are not accessible, if you think they are you have a different 
>meaning of the word accessible see 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility
>
>>Perhaps I'm missing something out? I don't know much about mailing
>>lists and this is the first one I have ever joined.
>>  
>>
>yup you are missing out.  This arguement is as old as the first forum 
>and before that it was newsgroup v/s listserv
>
>as a quick example the archive for May (gzipped) is currently 137k  and

>this page http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?t=840&highlight= on 
>the lugradio forum is more than half of that  bearing in mind my browser
>
>accepts gzipped content  and ignoring all the little shitty images and 
>concentrating on the badly coded html best estimate is four forum pages

>for all of this months email.
>
>I want the list pushed to me I don't expect to pull it (not counting I 
>pull from my mailserver ;-) ) you can't expect anyone worth their salt 
>to go looking at forums to answer your questions which is why they are 
>full of such crap advice.
>
>>Chris
>>
>sparkes - a forum hater
>
>
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