Facebook is a real bad idea - many of us refuse to even open
an account on that black hole of exhibitionism and voyeurism -
not to mention it is resource intensive.

A well designed & managed Forum places information and
resources all neatly connected in one place.

Following a thread on email can get tiresome - especially
when users don't change the Subject to properly reflect text
content and when there's a flurry of noise-posts.

A Forum captures & organizes text, images, links, etc.

IMHO ...

> Glad someone brought up the idea of forums.
>
> Being an avid email user, I get forum updates by email, so I
> experience no substantial difference between forums and mailing
> lists, save for protocol compatibility and bandwidth utilization.
> Of course, mail is also pretty easy to deal with in a simple text
> console, and forums not always so.
>
> What are the useful distinctions as experienced by those who prefer
> forums? Is it about the manner in which the topics are
> threaded/tagged/categorized, the differences in filtering/managing
> noise, a specific preference for HTTP rather than SMTP... or?
>
> Just curious. :)
>
> -8


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