[pct-l] salutations

[Tortoise]

I've used both online forums and listservs.  I've used forums since the 
days of CompuServe (~1991) until CompuServe succumbed to lousy management 
and AOL.

I prefer the listservs. I download the messages and read them quickly. My 
email program (Thunderbird) organizes them by thread hierarchically. Some I 
save, most get deleted. but this is a lot faster than working thru threads 
and messages on any forum I've used recently. I can also filter out senders 
and sort messages into separate folders.

BTW I'm on cable broadband up to 4MBPS.

Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>


Jason Schripsema wrote:
> hehe, all joking aside, anyone know why this isn't a forum already?  
> 
> i've used both lists and forums and really folks, the forums are a lot easier - all the replies to one thread are right there in one place and you don't have to go digging thru your inbox to try to follow one conversation...
> 
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> Patrick Beggan <meta474 at gmail.com> wrote: A user of a casual mailing list is indeed in the wrong time.
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> On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:45, Greg Kesselring  wrote:
> 
>> A user of email is an anachronism?  hmmm.  Maybe I better alert the  
>> company I work for.  Our entire company seems to be full of  
>> anachronisms.
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>> Patrick Beggan wrote:
>>> I'm sure anachronisms everywhere feel the same way.
>>>
>>> And who said forums need be fragments? E-mail is only less organized
>>> than forums. Everything else is the deal of writers of the English
>>> language.
>>>
>>> On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:06, Gary Wright  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Patrick Beggan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And don't feel bad that you don't know what it is -- mailing lists
>>>>> are
>>>>> by and large dead, replaced years ago by forums or chat rooms.
>>>>>
>>>> That is sort of like saying that radio is dead having been
>>>> replaced by moving pictures and television.
>>>>
>>>> In any case, I almost always prefer interacting via my own mailbox,
>>>> which tracks threads quite nicely, rather than clicking
>>>> through endless page reloads on forums, or hoping to time
>>>> things just right to find an interesting conversation on a
>>>> chat room.
>>>>
>>>> It is very strange to to think that I'm considered a
>>>> technological relic by rejecting the text/twitter/chat
>>>> modes of communication in favor of full sentences and
>>>> paragraphs via email.
>>>>
>>>> Radar
>>>>
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