Date:         Tue, 20 May 2008 13:35:10 -0400
Reply-To:     Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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From:         Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New platform-www.vanagon.us.com?
Comments: To: Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
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 "Mike Elliott" <camping.elliott@gmail.com> said:

> I have no opinion either way, but would like to know the reasons why
> email might be better-suited for this community.

I feel that the simplicity of text-based email is much more suited to
being organized, filtered, archived, searched, etc. in ways that suit
me.  With a web page I'm pretty much stuck with what I'm given.  A web
forum is a single point of failure: if it's down, everyone is off-line,
whereas email will queue up and be delivered later if the server goes
down, and I can still access my own saved messages if the server is
down.

Navigating web forums is clunky, for the most part.  I'm a keyboard guy,
I don't like mousing all over the place clicking links and buttons.  I
don't like entering and editing text on a web form very well either.

Finally, I find that with web forums, I'm just a lot less likely to keep
up with them and participate.  Email is something I'm on pretty much
every day and having list traffic come via email is just the most
convenient way for me -- nothing extra to check, no extra effort.

Allan
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1991 Vanagon GL