[Wolves] Badly in need of a forum?

[mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk]

I agree with you on a mailing list  it can be a friendly way to exchange
information, but my point was a lot of emails I am receiving are more to
do with problems on this that or the other, whose very subject matter would
normally found on a forum.

Mad Malc


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:37:01 +0100
>From: Kevanf1 <kevanf1 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 at tiscali.co.uk <mad-malc at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>
>Sorry but I've yet to see a forum thread that doesn't fork off into
>something totally different to the original.  I've also seen some
>forums which are nothing more than SPAM propagators.  Having said that
>I am a member of god alone knows ahow may forums and they have there
>place.  I'm also on a bout 6 mailing lists and I wouldn't want to swap
>them to forum format.  I find a mailing list more friendly most of the
>time. :-)
>-- 
>Take care.
>Kevan Farmer
>
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