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

[Jim Abernathy]

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