Re: Taming the mailing lists?

From: Joe(theWordy)Philbrook (jtwdyp_at_ttlc.net)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:16:08 -0400 (EDT)
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    It would appear that on Apr 30, Mikha ben Avraham did say:

    > Personally, I prefer forums to mailing lists. Forums give the ability to
    > separate different categories of problems and discussion.
    >
    > The major advantage I see for a forum compared to a mailing list is that
    > a forum is more of a "browsing" medium, and mailing list just stuff
    > everything down your throat. I want to check what sort of software
    > problems people have, but to do so with a mailing list is intimidating
    > (when I didn't check my email for a few days and found over a thousand
    > emails, I certainly didn't read them all).
    >
    > Right now, I go to fedoraforum.org for help, but it doesn't have nearly
    > the support base these mailing lists have. A combination of the mailing
    > list membership with a forum would be nervana and would solve what I
    > believe to be the "taming" problem.

    I'm betting your not using a threaded mail reader... Or you haven't
    configured your mail reader to use it <grin> When I first joined this
    list I wasn't using pines threaded format And I could see what you mean
    by "stuffing everything down your throat" Now I separate my lists with
    filters, and use threading... much better. AND it uses MY choice in
    interface. That is I use pine cause I like it!

    And I suppose I could even filter on interesting keywords to further
    divide up the volume into manageable folders if I wanted to.

    But if your really keen on the browser interface, why not filter the
    bulk of the list traffic out of your regular mail box. Then use a browser
    to follow things in the archive instead... Personally I wouldn't like to
    do that, but the archive is up to date. I just checked and your message
    dated today is already there. So if you really want to browse for it.
    you can. 

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