[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk]

Hi
A forum keeps a particular subject as a topic so that everybodies in box
doesn't get filled with unsolicited topics, whenever some one has a question
on a specific subject. That way if you post a question on a forum the answers
tend to be fielded by people who take an interest in that particular subject.
True you can if you want look at every single topic/reply that has been posted
in the last 24 hours, if you want to.
Whereas using emails as a forum means you have to wade through many/several
that you haven't even the foggiest clue as to what the subject raiser and
resondents are discussing.
As for changing email client to link threads, it still means you recieve
a lot of emails, that and the fact that newbies have no history to glean,
so they can not work out if the wolveslug is a font of knowledge or a SPAM
engine.

Mad Malc


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:54:06 +0100
>From: Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge at gmail.com>
>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?
>Reply-To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
>On 5/17/05, Mad Malc <mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi, just the 67 email messages so far today from wolveslug members, some
>> of them are clearly developing into threads, so when is the
>> forum/chatroom to be launched?
>> Otherwise should the lug membership increase, the emails might take on
>> the proportions of SPAM!
>
>Um, how would a web forum make messages easier to read? Your email
>client should thread messages; if it doesn't then you might want to
>look at a different client.
>
>Aq.
>
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