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And on a forum, you have to read all the names of those threads you have<br>
no interest in. With a decent mail client setup correctly you never see<br>the threads you dont want to read, they are deleted. On a forum, those<br>posts are always there, and you have to wade thru them when searching<br>for anything. One more reason why not to duplicate work and make people<br>look in multiple places to gain access to this mailing list (ie sign up<br>at forum, then you also have to sign up at the mailing list as well.)<br>And why do you want to have to add more work to what you have to do when<br>you come online? You already check your mail, and can have filters<br>setup to flag any threads youd be interested in; why add on having to<br>visit a forum, and then wade thru the new posts of the day to see if any<br>of them are of interest to you?<br><br>Do people not know how to use a mail client? Do people not want the<br>posts in real time? Do people not understand that a mailing list is<br>much more effecient than a forum?<br><br>
</blockquote></div>He is just looking at keeping the mailing list going
here while finding a way for people who don't like mailing lists
satisfied too. If you don't like using a forum you wouldn't have
to, you could just keep your mail client going as is - this wouldn't
affect you. Other people do prefer to not have to set filters on
their mail clients, when they can just glance across a topic at a forum
and decide to read or not to read.<br>
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Now what I think would have been most ideal is if you could easily
respond right at gossamer threads (or for that matter migrating to an
archiving solution that allows responses like that). That would
mean those who don't want to have to worry about getting tons of myth
mail can just search (for some a new concept) the archives and respond
right at the archive and just check back when they wanted to, without
ever having to be subscribed to the mailing list getting all of the
myth mail.<br>