Re: [DL] E-mail is... easier?

["Everett E. Proctor" <spiritmast@globaldialog.com>]

Yeah, if you are using a web based e-mail, then I don't see much
advantage of e-mail over the forums.  However, if you use a good e-mail
client that handles sorting and threaded messages, e-mail is *much* more
convenient.  I'd recommend either The Bat or Becky!, both are very good
e-mail programs for handling mailing lists.

-Everett

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:51:35 -0400
"Jim Ryan" <doc@daco.net> wrote:

> Well, I can only speak for myself on this one, but e-mail is a lot faster
> for me because I'm using Outlook.  If I were still using my old Yahoo
> address, I'd probably PREFER the forums.
> 
> I still use the forums but I don't get to check them as often as I do my
> e-mail.
> 
> -- Jim
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Dannyboy O1
>   Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:24 PM
>   To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>   Subject: [DL] E-mail is... easier?
> 
> 
>   I have to wonder here, because I've never found a list to be as easy to
> work with as a forum.  Could be something I'm doing wrong, maybe I can get
> some answers here.
> 
>   I obviously use hotmail for this, so all my mail is done online.  I use
> the digest version, because that actually makes these a bit smaller.  Hardly
> matters, because I would read them all anyway, since I can't tell from a
> subject line if there's any real content, or some idiot posting "yep" with
> 95 lines of copied text.
> 
>   The forums don't have great subject lines either, but an entire
> conversation thread is on a page, which is great for when you can't remember
> offhand what started the thread off and don't want to hunt through a hundred
> e-mails you got that week.
> 
>   Hotmail, some might know, has a limit to the inbox space.  1 mb.  I can't
> keep these things, unless I go through extra, annoying steps.  Forums keep
> the whole thing in a searchable archive, with all the new posts tagged...
> 
>   What, exactly, is this mysterious inconvenience these forums pose over
> e-mail?
> 
>   I'll grant you, I've got some issues with e-mail.  Before this, I did most
> of mine through a unix system with no GUI.  And I was on the Alternity list
> when that game was about to get published.  150 e-mails a day on a slow
> terminal plus college classes.  Bad combo.  Same thing as this list,
> basically.  I find it easy and pleasurable to surf a forum, and a pain to do
> my e-mail.  Spam, annoying relatives, more spam... headaches from trying to
> translate >s into a coherant timeline after formatting errors have jumbled
> them.  (when enough >s get in to push a word far enough to start a new
> line... which doesn't have any >s.)
> 
>   Given all that... the difference, to me, looks like mostly format.  Sure,
> it's another site to hit regularly.  I already surf webcomics habitually.
> Forums update a lot more often.  And if my idiot aunt sends another 500kb
> animated flage and midi music "patriotic" atrocity, I don't have to miss
> anything when my e-mail bounces.
> 
>   Sorry if this is a rant, I do this when I write tech support too.  ;)
> 
> 
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