If the email's space limitation is the main problem for keeping all
mailing list emails, give me an email, I will send a Gmail's invitation
to you.<br>
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I would be willing to help you guys to sort this problem out.<br>
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Feiyong<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Deusiah</b> <<a href="mailto:deusiah@gmail.com">deusiah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Your main thing against them seems to be their size? You can turn post<br>editing off, threads are displayed in an email client but not half as<br>nicely that's a matter of preference though. I have a large enough<br>account only I was speaking in general terms, you can't expect
<br>everyone to have a large enough account. Using Google as a search<br>engine for threads is not as good as using a forum search engine for<br>one it's not up to date with the latest posts.<br><br>Forums are accessible in my opinion, If I think they are I simply have
<br>a different option. Not everyone share's your views. If you don't<br>agree with something I say, fair enough. Explain it better and present<br>me with further information on why you feel that way. I'll look at<br>your views and take them into consideration.
<br><br>As for the push pull argument I don't think that's a strong point. You<br>open your email client as opposed to opening your web browser? I<br>wouldn't say the latter was harder.<br><br>Perhaps you should take a look at punBB, that's a forum coded properly
<br>with a neat CSS layout and very small pages sizes.<br><br>I belive forums are full of "such crap advice" because they are more<br>accessible. Forums seem far more popular than mailing lists, surely<br>accessibilty must play a key role here.
<br><br>Please remember I don't hate mailing lists, I'm not opposed to them in<br>the slightest I'm simply considering reasons to use an alternative I'm<br>more familiar with.<br><br>Chris<br><br>On 5/17/05, Steve Parkes <
<a href="mailto:sparkes@westmids.biz">sparkes@westmids.biz</a>> wrote:<br>> Deusiah wrote:<br>><br>> >You know just 30 minutes ago I was thinking what is the point of<br>> >mailing lists? I'm guessing they were around before forums or
<br>> >something?<br>> ><br>> ><br>> mailing lists predate the web full stop<br>><br>> >With forums you can edit your posts, have all the threads displayed in<br>> >a nice legible format. It doesn't take up any space in your email
<br>> >account and you have a permanent reachable record for anything that's<br>> >been discussed. Fair enough you can look through the archives but I<br>> >don't think they are so accessible as a forum.
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> editing posts can be abused,<br>> threads are displayed in any email client worth it's salt<br>> get a larger email account<br>> get a larger email account / mailman records every message and google
<br>> archives it<br>><br>> forums are not accessible, if you think they are you have a different<br>> meaning of the word accessible see<br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility
</a><br>><br>> >Perhaps I'm missing something out? I don't know much about mailing<br>> >lists and this is the first one I have ever joined.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> yup you are missing out. This arguement is as old as the first forum
<br>> and before that it was newsgroup v/s listserv<br>><br>> as a quick example the archive for May (gzipped) is currently 137k and<br>> this page <a href="http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?t=840&highlight=">
http://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?t=840&highlight=</a> on<br>> the lugradio forum is more than half of that bearing in mind my browser<br>> accepts gzipped content and ignoring all the little shitty images and
<br>> concentrating on the badly coded html best estimate is four forum pages<br>> for all of this months email.<br>><br>> I want the list pushed to me I don't expect to pull it (not counting I<br>> pull from my mailserver ;-) ) you can't expect anyone worth their salt
<br>> to go looking at forums to answer your questions which is why they are<br>> full of such crap advice.<br>><br>> >Chris<br>> ><br>> sparkes - a forum hater<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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