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Subject:Re: Blogs for questions, blogs for answers From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:56:29 -0700 (PDT)
There's so much insight in this post it's hard to know
where to start.
Mailing lists are by their very nature not persistent.
The archives can be searched, but old topics do not
get resurrected because only one message can be viewed
at a time.
A forum is somewhere between a Wiki/blog and a mailing
list. It is both discussion and a repository for
information, and an admin can cull "dead" replies of
no value (or delete the "Pet Peeves" thread).
--- David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> For example, I believe a *much* superior vehicle for
> this list might
> be a bulletin board (aka a "forum") with email
> option for new posts.
> That way, topics would be automatically threaded for
> later quick
> review--and not incidentally easier for members to
> get to the threads
> that most interest them.
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