[scribus] Using BBS instead

[D. R. Evans]

Joe Zeff said the following at 02/22/2011 12:25 PM :
> On 02/22/2011 11:16 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:
>> I cannot think of a single objective advantage that a forum possesses over
>> an e-mail reflector.
> 
> I can: if/when there are threads that don't interest me I can simply 
> ignore them and only look at posts that I either find interesting or 
> that I think I can help with.  I don't have to go through my Inbox 
> manually filtering out messages that I'm not interested in or delete 
> them as they come up.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand (truly).

Every day I see dozens of threads that don't interest me and... I ignore
them. I too, "don't have to go through my Inbox manually filtering out
messages that I'm not interested in or delete them as they come up".  So I
fail to understand the advantage you are claiming for fora.

(Indeed, I never delete anything that comes in on a reflector. There's no
reason to do so. But I admit that that's not on point, except insofar as it
means that I have a local searchable archive.)

Case in point: the subjects of the last twenty five threads for a
particular reflector are displayed on my screen. Looking at the scribus
reflector, I see at a glance that I have looked at exactly three of the
last 25 threads here.

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