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I am with you on this one Tony.
I like having push content via email. I find web based message boards
slow and tedious even with broadband (mostly due to server side issues
as they send me a new ad banner and other unwanted content). I use a
non-standard but very capable email client PM-Mail2000
(www.pmmail200.com) that allows me to filter all my mail into separate
folders for each mailing list so my inbox never gets cluttered. I have
all my email come as plain text so I don't automatically download
malware (viruses, activeX controls, spyware, VBscript) from embedded
HTML commands in HTML mail. Most of the latest security patches for
Windows these days have been to plug holes in reading HTML pages that
allow a web site privileged access to your computer. My email allows
me to select a popup list of all the URLs in a message and with one
click launch the link in a separate browser so I can choose which link
to follow very easily. I download and read my email on my PDA because
I don't always have web access.
Advantages of email for mailing lists:
- faster: text only means no superfluous graphics and ad banners, I can
flip through more messages in the same time using my email preview
window than I can using a web browser on broadband and with a busy
group like this one that is a big time saver. I like to look at every
post because often the subject line does not reflect the content.
- archive your favourite messages for easy ready access: I slip all the
best messages into a searchable archive folder which beats trying to
find them in a web forum without a search tool.
- no HTML Malware
- push content: I don't have to remember to go get it, I comes to me.
This is good for topics I like.
- email filtering: I have a separate folder for each mailing list and
spam filters and even kill filters are available to me: If I don't want
to ever see another message from someone, I never have to.
- take email with you when you are not connected
Disadvantages of Web based forums
- slow access (Yahoo is really a pain due to the extra advertising) due
to unnecessary content from the server
- same old list hijackers "am i Hot?" but no way to filter them from
the view
- HTML formatted messages may contain invisible code (white text on
white background) that can be used to compromise your system.
- needs constant internet access and a web browser
- difficult to archive good posts: select page, cut and paste into a
text document, save text document somewhere or save as html and get all
the graphics in a separate folder too...
- receiving an email telling me there is a reply to my post but not
telling me what the reply was
Overall, traditional mailing lists work well for me and I don't want
this list to change to a web based forum only. Could the group be moved
from Yahoo? Sure. Just don't ask me to participate via a web forum
only, I can't do it.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:19:42 -0600, Tony Nowakowski wrote:
>I never liked using web boards, and, apparently, I'm not alone. For one,
>getting info "pushed" to me just works better. Also, there are no graphics
>to download, and, no additional passwords to remember.
>
>> Web boards display and archive all the messages for you so you never have
>to fill up
>> your local mailbox.
>
>I limit my list messages to ~500 from each one I subscribe to for quick
>reference. Having a full archive available somewhere is crucial, though.
>
>> If you're not downloading emails, you don't download viruses.
>
>Pure text e-mail is another way to do it.
>
>> many boards allow you to receive email
>> replies when someone responds to a message you post
>
>This is a pain to use, depending on the board program.
>
>> not to mention the
>> convenience of having URLs immediately accessible, and images and
>multimedia
>> viewable.
>
>One of the bad parts of the Yahoo list (trashing links).
>
>Tony
Peter MacDougall
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