> Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ken Norton wrote:
> > I'm about to suggest another option.
How many times do we have to go through this ?
> I am strongly opposed to any forum style option that I've ever seen. I
> find them much slower and more awkward to use than individual emails in
> my Thunderbird in-box.
Agree completely.
>
> I'm out at the end of the DSL coverage and Comcast (ick!) charges much
> more than the telco, so my download speed is 768k. That's actually fine
> for most everything. But with forums, the need to reload the browser
> page for every little thing adds appreciably to the response time for
> working with posts.
Yeah, reloading the pages is crap, especially when it's mainly useless
decoration and advertising !
>
> I personally find the forum thread paradigm clumsy at best compared to a
>
> simple list of mail that I can instantly sort, filter or view as threads
>
> in many ways. Searches are also fast and powerful in Thunderbird.
> > I know that the "listserve" methodology has worked well for us through
> the years, but over the past year, it has gotten increasingly sluggish.
> It has degraded to the point where it is getting hard to have a
> functioning list.
> Are you still experiencing delays? Certainly there was a problem 2-3 of
> weeks ago, but Thomas railed at the ISP and all has been snappy here
> since. The problem was a specific insufficiency of some sort of
> resource, not some generic failure of email or listserver technology. He
>
> also said he would consider moving to an ISP with better service if
> necessary.
Maybe that's worthwhile, though turnaround time for emails has been good the
last week or so.
...Wayne
Wayne Harridge
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