[Tlhingan-hol] Mailing List vs Forum vs. Social Media (was Re:How would you feel about new Klingon)

[DloraH]

I agree with Qov.
All of my email, work and home, is in plain-text only.  Pretty backgrounds and smiley faces are
stripped out.
With email, I can sort them how I want.  I mark the messages as read after I read them.  If I am in
a hurry and I see that a message is really long, I can leave it as unread, and later when I have
time, it is very easy to find that unread message.  How would I find that unread message in
fecesbook?  In a forum, if I go into a message and then find it is too long for the time I have and
want to save it for later, can I back out and mark it as unread?  The other forums I have been on,
once you go in it, it thinks you read it.
I already have my email open.  I don't have to do anything extra.  If it is POP or IMAP, I receive
the messages and can read them anytime, whether I have internet connection or not.  Forums and
social media require a connection the whole time you are on.

Email is first choice.  A forum would be second choice.  The chaos of the illogical realm of
fecesbook, not an option.


- DloraH


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robyn Stewart [mailto:robyn at flyingstart.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 07:55
> To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Mailing List vs Forum vs. Social 
> Media (was Re:How would you feel about new Klingon)
> 
> You have to go to a forum and navigate it to remain current 
> with what's going on.  As the days lengthen and the snow 
> melts, I have only time to scan tlhIngan-Hol messages, and 
> read a few, but at least I get them and can see what's going 
> on in the same medium that I am checking anyway.  Depending 
> on the  forum software, it would also probably be harder to 
> filter messages on content and sender.  
> 
>  
> 
> Another thing I prefer about e-mail is that mine is pure 
> text, making it impossible for idiots to fill messages with 
> dancing smilies. You could probably compromise with a system 
> that automatically posted e-mails to a forum or turned forum 
> posts into e-mails, except for the e-mails of anyone who used 
> animated emojies: their accounts should simply be deleted.
> 
>  
> 
> - Qov