>> 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.
>
> --
>
> Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul mailto:pderocco@...
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