Digital BW, The Print

Hello Paul D. DeRocco, .. Hey ho to all fans of a real forum.

Folks - this ain't funny anymore. Read on and hear what happened to me
because this mailing list is so 20th century..

1. When repling to a post, the whole text (yahoo info) gets copied. I feel
like an editor watching out not to delete the wrong stuff.

2. But now it comes : mails got bounced. I lost 16 messages!! My email
address is at GMX, the largest provider in western Europe. Based in Germany
and top-notch. They know their craft.

And yet mails got bounced back - so Yahoo suspended messaging me.

Here's the reason that promted it:

http://faq.gmx.net/optionen/email/antispam/4.html

Don't ask me about it - I'm a visual photographer - not an editor with
ASCII. I'm surely not an Internet professional.

The cool thing of a real forum would be that I could on travel for example
follow up the talk with any ordinary browser - even on my PDA. Yes I can set
up some web mail, but it would not be Entourage with all its bells and
whistles like labels and flags.

Just a thought - time will tell which camp had the most vision for the
future.


Martin

PS: I just wanted to send this off - again a problem: it said "this message
must be sent as unicode... some cannot display properly... do you want to...


Oh my -- are we in the digital age or WHAT ?!





>> From: Martin
>> 
>> Another most appreciated advantage of a "real" forum is the possibility to
>> edit your posting.
>> 
>> This is useful if inacurate information is being detected after
>> sending the message away.
> 
> Well, I, for one, doubt I'll ever participate if there is no mailing list or
> newsgroup. I've signed up on a couple of dozen different forums on various
> subjects, and I never get around to visiting them except maybe once a year
> when I have a question. Unlike mailing lists, you have to take affirmative
> steps to go to a forum, and I just never remember. If I was only interested
> in one thing, I might remember, but I'm on a couple dozen mailing lists, and
> I participate in another dozen newsgroups, so bulletin-board style forums
> just never get my attention.
> 
> The worst problem with a forum is that when you encounter a message that you
> want to keep, perhaps because it contains some information you want to refer
> to later, you can't save it on your machine without copying it to the
> clipboard, pasting it into a text file, navigating to some folder, and
> typing in a name to save it under. With a mailing list, all you have to do
> is not delete the message, and it remains in the mail folder, which you can
> sort by sender, subject or date.
> 
> Newsgroups aren't bad (although privately hosted ones are better than Usenet
> ones). I only have to open one program to be presented with all the
> newsgroups I'm interested in, and see which ones have new messages. Outlook
> Express lets me tag messages that are of interest, so they remain in the
> cache even after they're gone from the server.
> 
> There is some software out there that can present a message repository as a
> mailing list, newsgroup and web-based forum, depending upon the preference
> of the user. I think it's from Lyris.
> 
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> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...
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