[mythtv-users] Support via email group versus forum??

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 05/02/17 14:11, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 05/02/17 13:27, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 11:51:01 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/05/2017 06:37 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>>> On 5 February 2017 9:39:07 PM Jim Abernathy
>>>> <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have used both this email list and the mythtv forum for help with my
>>>>> Mythtv questions.  Why is one used versus another?  I find the
>>>>> nature of
>>>>> email and email clients to make a lot of the thread here almost
>>>>> unfollowable.  The forum controls the threads much better.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also know that I can't get some questions answered in the forum.
>>>>> That's why I found the email list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone explain this to me??
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim A
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> I doubt that there will be a single explanation. Some will just
>>>> prefer one
>>>> over the other. Personally I have signed up to the forums but haven't
>>>> logged in there for probably a year now. On the infrequent times I
>>>> post or
>>>> reply the email mechanism just works better for me so that's what I do.
>>>>
>>> I've noticed on the email list a lot of complaints by the experts that
>>> too many people top post or generate new emails instead of replying to
>>> the original post.  This is avoidable by use of a forum.  It's also
>>> easier to organize forum topics for later research.
>>>
>>> As someone who has been programming computers since 1969, I find it
>>> funny, that an old fart like me prefers the "newer" technology of forums
>>> over email. :-)
>>>
>>> Jim A
>>
>> It sounds like you just need a better email client.  One that does
>> threading automatically.  Following threads is a nightmare with a
>> non-threading client.
> 
> No-one has mentioned the searchable mail archive, which I find has now
> become
> 
> https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/

Surely you mean our own list archive at
http://lists.mythtv.org ??


Regards
Stuart


> 
> The appearance has changed since I last looked, but the 'advanced
> search' tool is great for questions that, like most, may not be right at
> the cutting edge.  But there, too, following threads with a mix of top
> and bottom posting is still a nightmare.
> 
> John P
> 
> 
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