[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk]

Hi I guess you're getting your wish the list is pushed to you, again and
again and again, where as with a forum you have one point of reference, plus
many forums are able to hold more than 6 months of back history.
This mailing list clearly has no accessible history to new members.

Mad Malc

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:01:27 +0100 (BST)
>From: Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?
>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Reply-To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
>--- Steve Parkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Agreed, I want the mailing list to come to me, not
>have to go to it. If all of the questions were on a
>forum, I'd probably never answer any questions. Forums
>make things easy to miss.
>
>If you are receiving too many messages, change your
>mailman preferences to receive them in digest mode,
>which means you get one big email every day containing
>all of that days messages.
>
>I have to admit though, we could do without a lot of
>the tail end of thread discussion that disappears way
>off the original point. I've gone in the last 6 months
>from reading every mail on the list to reading the new
>threads and deleting the rest when they go past the
>solution into 'well I think this' territory.
>
>Just my grumpy 2 pence.
>
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