(urth) List to Forum?

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/9/2010 1:07 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Lee Berman<severiansola at hotmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.

However, recent popular web forums are notorious for letting you miss 
postings that you *haven't* been party to.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >