(urth) List to Forum?

Son of Witz Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Thu Dec 9 11:07:30 PST 2010


On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
>> Jeff Wilson: This list uses Mailman software, which allows people to set their accounts
>> to "no mail" and follow the threads via the web interface if they like.
> 
> I didn't know how to do that so I once set my account to block the emails and it ended up
> knocking me off the list. So now I just keep a dummy email account and let them pile up
> there withot reading them. Yeah, the web interface isn't bad for keeping track of threads. 
> You can sort by Thread, Subject or Author, month by month.
>                            

Me too. Hence 4000 unread messages now in my daily backup. :)

The web interface is ok, but you have to jump out of it if you want to post.
Plus, with a forum you can subscribe to notifications. If you ask a question, you can set it so that you don't miss an answer someone provides maybe two years later.


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