[missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Re: Announcing Mark/Space User Forums

[Thomas Heard]

> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:20:11 +0200
> From: Rejo Zenger <markspace-ms-wm at subs.krikkit.nl>
> Subject: Re: [missing-sync-winmobile-talk] Announcing Mark/Space User
> Forums
> To: missing-sync-winmobile-talk at lists.markspace.com
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> ++ 18/10/06 11:48 -0700 - Eric Ullman:
>> We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Mark/Space User Forums.
>> 
>> The new User Forums will be replacing our product email lists,
>> including this one. The mailing lists will remain open for a couple
>> of weeks as people migrate over to the forums, and then they will be
>> closed down permanently.
> [...]
> 
> To be honest: I am not really pleased. Personally, a mailinglist works a
> lot better and a lot more efficiently than a forum on the WWW.
> 
> Best regards,
I'm sure I'm not pleased. Rather than a digest of messages that I can deal
with as time permits, I'll have to go to the forum. The alternative of "near
real-time individual messages is even less attractive.

I understand that the forum will provide much richer archive search and I
won't have to look at postings that don't concern me. It also requires that
I sign-on regularly, or the unread messages tally will get entirely out of
hand. 

Another list I read recently went to a forum, but elected to maintain the
digest email of postings.
TKH