[Tlhingan-hol] Forum or email group ?

[chransberry at gmail.com]

Of course there are pros and cons; a forum has things organized, so it could  
be easier to find a thread that would otherwise be buried in the inbox  
somewhere, and also it doesn't flood one's inbox, particularly if someone is  
gone for a while, but they can still access it. And of course there's the  
ability to lock threads, and delete trollish posts.

On the other hand, it seems that people who are not sincerely interested in  
the topic are less likely to join a mailing list than a forum. So we don't  
really have a troll problem, from what I can tell, whereas on a forum that  
might be more of an issue. And of course there's the ability to read  
messages offline, which you can't do on a forum, as was mentioned before.  
And in my case a mailing list is preferable because I use old glitchy  
devices, and my browsers are prone to freezing and crashing, while my email  
app is significantly less so. So if we were voting, I'd vote for the mailing  
list.

-QISta'

Verbing AWESOMES language!

-----Original message-----
From: Anthony Appleyard <a.appleyard at btinternet.com>
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Sent: Tue, May 3, 2016 05:15:54 GMT+00:00
Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] Forum or email group?

As I pointed out before, if a discussion group is a forum rather than an  
email list, if the group's discussion becomes high-volume, then the output  
does not overload incoming email queues if the member cannot attend to his  
email for a few days.

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