On 9/13/2015 1:49 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2015 12:50:20 Tom Easterday wrote: > >> It seems like the mailing list and forum are two completely different >> venues, or are they? I see many of the same people in the forum as >> the mailing list but I see people in the forum not on the mailing list >> or perhaps they just don’t post there… I assume this (at least >> apparent) disconnection is simply history - mailing list came first - >> forum more recently. Anyway, I am just raising the issue wondering if >> there is a way to link or cross reference them, or if there is some >> etiquette posting information on one and/or the other. I am sometimes >> tempted to post information in both places but then I feel guilty >> wondering if I am duplicating info…. >> >> -Tom > Escapee's from the M$ world seem to think the forum is some sort of > magic. Very easily impressed frogs IMO. For me its a PIMA, as I can't > remember where the heck it is, and did I ever register a I&^$% password, > and if so, what the heck is it? At my age, I've got far better things to > do with ny dwindling wet ram. > > The mailing list comes to me 100% automatically, I read it, if I can > answer a question I can with one click of the mouse on the proper reply > style icon in the kmail toolbar, type my reply, and hit a ctl+return to > send. With the background scripts I have running, that is literally all > I have to do. Call me lazy, but a forum is a right pain in the arse in > comparison. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett I use both the forum and the mailing list. However I prefer the forum as it is much tidier than the mailing list and I can check it at my leisure. As a member of many other forums for other hobbies of my own I am quite used to forums. The biggest issue I have with the mailing list is the fact that the email trail gets very large. For example in my email response there are two other responses above mine. (I intentionally left them for illustrations purpose) ;-) . I do enjoy reading both. And you do get the immediate notification when someone posts something to the mailing list.
I like the forum because many people searching the web get directed there for their answer so posting a question and getting it answered there gives a potentially wider response base than on the mailing list. I know you can search the mailing list archive but then that seems to be more confusing to me vs the forum. Just my 2 cents. John, I think we are up the about 6 cents now. Can we go buy something? Jim Craig (NitroCH3NO2 on the forum) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
