[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[Deusiah]

Your main thing against them seems to be their size? You can turn post
editing off, threads are displayed in an email client but not half as
nicely that's a matter of preference though. I have a large enough
account only I was speaking in general terms, you can't expect
everyone to have a large enough account. Using Google as a search
engine for threads is not as good as using a forum search engine for
one it's not up to date with the latest posts.

Forums are accessible in my opinion, If I think they are I simply have
a different option. Not everyone share's your views. If you don't
agree with something I say, fair enough. Explain it better and present
me with further information on why you feel that way. I'll look at
your views and take them into consideration.

As for the push pull argument I don't think that's a strong point. You
open your email client as opposed to opening your web browser? I
wouldn't say the latter was harder.

Perhaps you should take a look at punBB, that's a forum coded properly
with a neat CSS layout and very small pages sizes.

I belive forums are full of "such crap advice" because they are more
accessible. Forums seem far more popular than mailing lists, surely
accessibilty must play a key role here.

Please remember I don't hate mailing lists, I'm not opposed to them in
the slightest I'm simply considering reasons to use an alternative I'm
more familiar with.

Chris

On 5/17/05, Steve Parkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote:
> 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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