On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Samuel Baldwin
<recursive.forest@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2009/10/11 Mic J <michael.cognacc@gmail.com>:
>> Why is that better?
>
> Because you get to pick your UI, because all your mail as amalgamated
> into one mailbox where you can sort it yourself where there's no easy
> place for garbage "off-topic" discussion, because your mailbox is
> where messages can be threaded properly, because there are no avatars
> or forum stats or ranks or administrators or moderators to create
> politics, because they're low overhead and easy accessible, because
> low-traffic mailing lists still catch everyone's attention where a
> low-traffic forum will eventually be ignored by the users... so on and
> so forth. There's bound to be a bunch of sites or archived
> rants/debates about this.
>
> If it helps, compare your average forum goer with your average mailing
> list denizen. That alone should be enough...

Forum goers: kind of stupid, but friendly, or at least funny if they
get into flamewars?
Mailing list users: snotty and short with people?

I think you misunderstand forums; have you ever even participated in
one? Not needing to choose your UI is a feature, not a bug.