Am 17.08.2013 19:06, schrieb Justin Mclean:
... but I still don't understand why people prefer it to using a real email
client.
I guess there are endless discussions in the web why the one is better
than the other respectively about the pros and cons.
One good "theory" is this one:
http://www.freelock.com/blog/john-locke/2010-03/mailing-list-or-forum-theory
There is also an interesting discussion at stackexchange:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/71148/why-do-programmers-still-use-mailing-lists
and you can even find psychological reflections like this:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/10/20/mailing-lists-versus-forums-community-convenience-closeness/
One aspect of my own preference (or better co-existence) of a web forum
is the usage of multiple devices for (mainly) reading the mailing lists.
I'm managing the mailing list emails on my laptop with Thunderbird which
is OK, but could be better in thread-sorting/arrangement. The other time
I use my iPad, but I won't imagine how to handle the mailing list with
iPad's mail client. The web mailing list archive is crippled and
cumbersome. Even more on my smartphone!
I also follow the activity on the mailing list on my PC at work and
there I don't want flood my mail client with even more mails. Again I
dislike there to use the mailing list archive and I couldn't write to
mailing list - until now.
So I still don't understand why people don't understand the reasons to
using web forums, but ...
> Each to their own I guess.
I think that's a good conclusion of all. ;-)
Thank you Justin, for the realization! :)
Stephan
