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Re: [ic] Mailing List vs. Message Board



Is there a specific reason that this site is not using message boards? This is not meant to be antagonistic, but I find the message board structure easier to navigate and prefer the default threading.

Well, I for example, ignore "message boards" as much as I can. There's nothing
of their idea, usage or usefulness that attracts me.

I could take out a big list of why message boards should die, but that's out of the
scope here; I'm just saying that people's taste differs.

Perhaps I am missing something I could be doing. How do you best view the thread of a message from a mail list? The threading capabilities of Thunderbird still miss categorize messages in a thread, and the thread view link from the Mailing List archives is not very accurate either.

I find that for most of my research needs all my resources are message
board based or IRC.

This is the only site that continues to use mailing lists.

Uhm, quite the opposite.


I realize there are other mailings lists around. Perhaps you missed the context of the comment. The sentence you quoted on was actually part of the paragraph snippet you commented on above. It is the only site I use for my research that uses mailing lists.

Thanks for the feedback,
Gary
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