The forum vs. email split seems to break down along the lines of polling vs. push. People who have used email for a long time and know how to manage large amounts of it prefer the push model; people who are less familiar with it, and think in terms of online "communities," tend to prefer forums. I like email lists, and find visiting multiple websites to poll forums cumbersome, but this seems to be a really unfamiliar and uncomfortable model for anyone under 30 -- much like how many people my age are not familiar with newsgroups and have no idea how to use them.
I will say that as long as forums stick around (a major caveat) they seem to be more searchable; search engines seem well-tuned to access them, compared to email archives; email list archives also often have broken threading and are increasingly being made private due to spam concerns. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Glenn Holmer <shad...@lyonlabs.org> wrote: > On 01/25/2015 11:41 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > I asked what was broken, so the text below misquotes me entirely. > > The message I was responding to quoted incorrectly: > > > http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2015-January/017043.html > > > I do not think anything needs to be changed. > > I am in agreement with you. A forum is not necessary. > > -- > Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) > "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe." > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- D. Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington GPG key fingerprint: 0DB7 4B50 8910 DBC5 B510 79C4 3970 2BC3 2078 D875 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
