[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[Steve Parkes]

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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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sparkes - a forum hater