[TheList] Forum or Email List

Sat May 30 13:19:37 AEST 2009

Apparently you've not realised that mailing lists pre-date web forums by,
well, heaps, and plenty of data is retained.  Thus 'Mailing list archives'.

The footer of every post to 'TheList' points you there. All posts are
permanently public, archived and searchable by web search tools.

I've gleaned plenty of useful facts through generic web searches, and
results flagged out of mailing list archives.

I'm sure some enterprising person could extract their archive of previous
list traffic and put it online if they so wished.

Mark.
(Back, for a while at least, to see what happens next...)

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Phil W <suckerpunchnz at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  I'm not against an email list and I'm not agaisnt a forum...
>
> But a definite advantage to a forum is the retention of helpful information
> people give others.
>
> As a new member I came in asking alot of questions.
> Probably most of which had already been answered in the past.
> This coulda all been saved in the forum....
> or transferred from the list emails into some form of FAQ for future
> members to read up on.
>
> hmmmm....
>
> Downside of a forum is, topics go off on tangents very easily and requre
> heavy moderation.
> Forums can get messy.
> Emails tend to be more convinient to read and keep up with and nobody likes
> spam so topics tend to stay relevent.
>
>
> hmmmm....
>
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