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I will chime in and say that I most certainly perfer a message board over lists. On 4/24/06, Ian Petersen <iep@mail.dk> wrote: > Matthew, > > > I personally find message boards so much more conveinent than mailing > > lists. > > I find quite the reverse is true. Message boards are OK for stuff like > product support where you don't need to follow a conversation - just ask > a question, get an answer and get out. But they rarely have decent > threading, making it impossible to know who is saying what to whom. And, > since most web-boards use some sort of time-based cookie arrangement for > marking posts read or unread, you never can be sure whether you haven't > missed an important message or not. Even worse is the fact that you have > to manually go out and fetch each and every message yourself - perhaps > from half a dozen or more different boards, each with their own > interface and way of working. This is extremely ineffective. It takes me > the same time to skim through a couple of dozen web-board messages as it > does to skim a couple of hundred emails ... > > With mailing lists all my messages come to me automatically without > having to lift a finger. My mail app sorts them into nicely threaded > folders for me to read at my leisure - presented in a consistent and > controllable interface no matter where the messages come from. And I'm > certain I have all the messages a thread for further reference. In fact > I have in my current messagebase every email and news message I've sent > or received since 1996! It's a goldmine of information on a variety of > subjects that would be impossible to assimilate in any other way. > > -- > > Ian Petersen > > >