I'm with Jane on this. Out of habit: We had e-mail 20 years before we had the WWW. I have found that I simply don't follow "forums" on the WWW. I depend on my e-mail inbox. In some formats, e.g., YAHOO groups, you can switch from receiving postings as e-mail to having to use a browser to read them on the forum web site. When groups switch to forum (i.e., web site instead of e-mail) they lose me as a member. In my case, put it down to age! Jim Shields At 10:46 AM 5/30/2009 -0700, you wrote: >Justin wrote, > >I know everyone does not like this accidental use of the PBS bounce > >or email that is 5,000 lines long. > > I would like to suggest the use of a Forum to replace much of the > > email discussions. Being new to PBS I don't know if a forum has > > been tried or not. Leaving the PBS bounce for more important > > information to be passed on. > >......... > >I prefer the e-mail list, because I would not always remember or >bother to go to a website, go through the procedure of signing on >with a password, and sorting through the posts and trying to remember >when I last looked at them. It's no problem for me to get the usually >brief e-mails that come with the PBS list, even though I am condemned >to a slow dial-up connection. I use the index on my "In" box to view >what has come in, and I delete anything whose subject line suggests >it will not be relevant to my interests, along with the obvious spam, >before even displaying it. This is very easy to do with the e-mail >application I use, Eudora; surely it is easy with others. > >..... > >With best regards, >Jane McGary >