Do you prefer mailing lists or web based forums?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:45:27PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote:
> For me, that's the whole point. Before I switched to GMail, I used pine to
> read this list .. that was painful. Then I discovered I could sort messages
> by threads, and it became much easier. Moving to GMail gave me the same
> power and gives me a pretty good web UI at the same time, along with limited
> filtering.

Right.  And if gmail's interface works well for you, then that is all
that matters.  With a web forum you wouldn't get to choose your
interface or filtering rules.

> Having a mail-based system also means no flashing Microsoft ads, no
> Goooooogle ads, no ISP ads, no incessant clicking to see the 'next' message;
> the entire thread (under GMail, anyway) is on one page. That interface may
> not be popular with everyone else, but it works fine for me.

Yeah.  Nice and simple, and to the point.  No extras required, just the
message.

Len Sorensen
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