Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Monday 24 January 2005 2:18 pm, Ian bell wrote:
Chris Green wrote: snip
Oh, and finally, I *HATE* forums, the software is always so diabolical compared with using Usenet News or even a mailing list.
Fortunately the OO forum is email based just like this one.
IAn
I am of the same feeling as Chris, I like Usenet (apart from all the trolls and usenet spam) and mailing lists are ok. Usenet is a great arena for discussion that is being killed by nasty forums (each of which require a login account and present different variations of the same nasty user interface.)
Usenet has the advantage over forums that the posts are clearly indexed and archived by Google Groups (although that is almost a moot point after the travesty that was the last "upgrade" Google made to groups)
I used to post very frequently to some of the hardware and linux orientated newsgroups, I started doing so after I realised that a quick google group (or previously deja) search would answer 80% of my computing problems. After you discover such a thing you start to feel guilty about not putting anything back.
We are in serious danger of talking at cross purposes here. What I called the OO forum is a mail list *exactly* like this one. I used the term forum to mean aplace where people with similar interests can converse. I suspect you both thought I meany forum in the sense of a web based forum. Apologies for misleading folks.
Ian