Web forums (was Re: [sclug] Members Home pages.)

[Leon Ward]

> Replacing mailing lists with web forums is in my opinion a crap idea
> frankly.  They might have their uses for commenting on small things or
> throw away news style sites put not for serious discussion and linux
> support.

I don't think the word "replace" was ever mentioned or intended to be 
brought up. 
There can be no replacement for the usefulness of this mail list.



> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote:
> > > It strikes me the PHP Nuke etc... solution could be up and running
> > > very quick.. That would enable one to continue this debate as a
> > > thread and let it evolve..
> > FWIW, I read USENET and mailing-lists.
> 
> > I don't like web-based lists unless they also allow an email
> > interface and/or are gatewayed to/from a newsgroup. I don't wish
> > to have to navigate more, arbitrary, interfaces. Two are enough.
> 
> They also take more bandwidth than mailing lists or usenet as with
> either of those you'll only get the messages once whereas 
> most web based
> forums send you an entire thread (complete with pointless graphics for
> smilies, even icons for the person posting) in a few pages.
> 
> You end up with people reloading the forums often as well so as not to
> miss out on new posts.
> 
> Replacing mailing lists with web forums is in my opinion a crap idea
> frankly.  They might have their uses for commenting on small things or
> throw away news style sites put not for serious discussion and linux
> support.
> 
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