Suggesting use of a Forum was RE: People - please do not reply to "everyone".
J.E. Shields (Sun, 31 May 2009 02:03:20 PDT)
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