Hi Lauri
That is an interesting perspective: my feeling / experience was
exactly the opposite: the chief weakness of mailing lists is that they
have no usability whatsoever: I get just a flat list of unorganised
mails swamping my inbox.
That of course may be down to the weaknesses of the web-mail client I
use. I would welcome advice on "best-practice" tools for consuming
mailing lists. I am (mostly) on OSX, sometimes on Windows and Linux.
To quote Churchill "give us the tools and we will do the job".
From my point-of-view, plus points for usability of forums over
mailing lists are (in no special order):
* Stickies
* Sub forums
* Search
* Private Messages
* Edit previous posts (I could have used that today when I
inadvertently clicked send too early)
* Thread based perspective
* Does not fill my mail file
* Visible metadata such as number of replies, date of most recent
reply, number of posts etc.
Downsides of forums are:
* yet another user/password to manage (although a forum could be
integrated into together.jolla.com
* yet another site to visit regularly (in addition to my mail client)
* karma: so distracting, I prefer the simple egalitarianism /
meritocracy of mailing lists
Grüsse
Chris
Zitat von "Lauri Nurmi" <lanu...@iki.fi>:
24.5.2014 13:56, christopher.l...@thurweb.ch kirjoitti:
My suggestion is that rather than splitting into multiple mailing
lists, which does not really cure anything, you replace the mailing
lists with a forum. I agree it would be crazy to have both.
-1
Is there any forum platform whose usability is not totally terrible
compared to mailing lists?
First of all, to be able to keep track of who has replied to whose
post, and which post, I want to see the posts as a tree. But
offering such a tree view seems to be very rare on forums.
LN
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