Dragaera

Mailing list vs. forum

Tue Feb 10 18:08:25 PST 2004

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> The big problem, though, is finding new messages. Which is such abasic 
> function that I'm croggled, but *nobody* has an even vaguely competent 
> system yet.

This is even worse on Invision boards, although PHPBB is equally as bad. 
The only one I've ever not experienced this problem is on an Ikon board.

>>Thoughts, opinions, flames? Btw, I do appreciate having this mailing
>>list, and I also appreciate the people that make it possible. I'm not
>>trying to offend anyone or raise any hackles, but just wondering
>>something outloud... err... in text.
>>    
>>
>
>It is, of course, simple and easy and fairly cheap for you to start
>such a web forum.  Mentioning it in a posting here would be entirely
>appropriate, as would including it in your signature here and
>elsewhere, and I imagine I'd link to it from the web site.  Despite
>the fact that *I* think it's a bad idea :-). 
>  
>
Forums present the problem of trolls, as they are easy to get into, in 
addition to people who think they are cool because they use l33t 5p34k.

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