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zondag 28 december 2003
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I've been reading this
mailing list for a few days now, and I started thinking about why a
mailing list is used for this type of communication. It's used to allow
people to talk about a subject, to discuss ideas, ask each other
questions, and more like that.
I do this too, a lot. Only I have never used a mailing list to do it.
Since 1999, I've been using forums, or message boards, to communicate
with groups of people. In short is it a place where you can start
topics, respond to them and in that way create discussions. It's a bit
like a mailing list, only more advanced. And that's exactly why I don't
understand why mailing lists are still used. Every message is a single
one on a page, so to read the replies you have to navigate through the
list. Discussions aren't comfortably readable, when they aren't threads.
In a forum, everyone can start a topic, and everyone can post replies.
All the replies are stored beneath the topicstarter, and one thread is
all in one page. Forums have topiclistings, which only show the topics
that are present. The replies aren't listed there, because they belong
to the topic. This way, a reader can get a nice overview of the
contents of the forum, and read complete topics in one page without
having to click from post to post.
So, again: Why on earth are mailing lists still used?
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