On 30 Jul 2008, at 15:15, podperson wrote:
Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
By my opinion that's point. What's the main difference between a forum and a mailing list? Actually I don't see a difference.
There's no difference, but you're against forums.
Err actually there's a huge difference between forums and mailing lists.
On a forum you can't sort and organise posts.
On a mailing list I can delete the threads I'm not interested in, I can move the ones with helpful tips into one folder, I can move messages relating to particular topics into other folders and basically organise the incoming emails into whatever system works best for me. I can block emails from people that I don't want to hear from, I can set entire threads to ignore.
And if I don't want to have the mails locally, I don't have to do that either. I can just read them via imap.
Forums are just page after page after page of HTML links. I can't move them around, organise them or delete them.
To me, that's a huge difference and the reason I don't like forums. I can't organise anything to my liking - mailing lists are far more flexible.
H.