[TxMt] Re: Actual Forum?

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 30 Jul 2008, at 14:15, podperson wrote:
> There's no difference, but you're against forums.

There is one huge huge huge difference.

In a forum you (or the person controlling the forum) decides how it  
looks to me, how I search it, how I interact etc.  With a mailing list  
I decide how it is presented, filtered, organised, searched.  With a  
mailing list I also have a standard storage form to work with (an  
RFC822 message), with a forum its all locked up in someones little  
paradise....

Even if you get the "ideal" forum software, your ideal may not be my  
ideal.

You can tell me how to do those things if you wish, however my  
response will be "fuck off" unless I an close enough to just hit you.

Frankly forums are implemented by people who misunderstand mailing  
lists.

So if you tell me that I need to use a forum the answer is "Over your  
dead body!"  (and yes the pronoun is correct).

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[ Nigel Metheringham             Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.com ]
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