<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Leigh Porter wrote:<br><br>> But with a mailing list you receive every single message no matter<br>> wether you want to read it or not. I expect most people dont bother<br>> reading most messages on the lists they subsribe to. So for them a web
<br>> forum may in fact save bandwidth.<br><br>Perhaps. But with a decent MUA you can sort the messages into threads,<br>and not read the ones you don't want to. You can also apply rules so<br>that if certain words appear in the subject lines, or even the body
<br>text, certain actions can be taken.<br></blockquote></div><br>Personally I prefer Usenet which has the best of both worlds - text-based, low-overhead messages but proper* threading with the ability to read headers and choose which messages to actually download.
<br><br>(*i.e. not subject-line based)<br><br>-- <br>Paul Mason