[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[alex yan]

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.

I would be willing to help you guys to sort this problem out.

Feiyong




On 5/17/05, Deusiah <deusiah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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