On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Samuel Baldwin <recursive.for...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/10/11 Mic J <michael.cogn...@gmail.com>: >> Why is that better? > > Because you get to pick your UI, because all your mail as amalgamated > into one mailbox where you can sort it yourself where there's no easy > place for garbage "off-topic" discussion, because your mailbox is > where messages can be threaded properly, because there are no avatars > or forum stats or ranks or administrators or moderators to create > politics, because they're low overhead and easy accessible, because > low-traffic mailing lists still catch everyone's attention where a > low-traffic forum will eventually be ignored by the users... so on and > so forth. There's bound to be a bunch of sites or archived > rants/debates about this. > > If it helps, compare your average forum goer with your average mailing > list denizen. That alone should be enough...
Forum goers: kind of stupid, but friendly, or at least funny if they get into flamewars? Mailing list users: snotty and short with people? I think you misunderstand forums; have you ever even participated in one? Not needing to choose your UI is a feature, not a bug.
