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[Derek Whitten]

Charles Marcus wrote:
>> Whether or not a forum is a better idea isn't really depending on the
>> subject matter IMHO. Its success or failure depends on what the
>> prospective participants like better. I personally cannot stand
>> forums. That's a place where I have to expend energy to go there and
>> manually click through stuff. If I remember to go there and say up to
>> date, that is. Email comes to me, and is sorted suitably on the server
>> side so there is no clutter. Deleting messages I don't care about is
>> much easier than clicking myself through some thread on a forum.
> 
> You never heard of a forum that sends new posts to you via email?
> 
> I prefer forums where I can subscribe to the forum topics that interest
> me, and see only posts for those topics - yes, in my email.
> 
> Then each message from the forum should have links to the CENTRALIZED
> FAQs (I understand there are a lot of different forums/faq's out there).
> 
> That said, I seem to be in the minority in preferring forums for supprt
> related things like this - especially high volume stuff - so I'll just
> pipe down now...
> 
> :)
> 

can't forget about forum RSS feeds too.. then you can selectively pick
which messages you want to view..



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