<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Tegan Dowling wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">This is why I've suggested having a bulletin board, instead of a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">mailing list.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A phpbb installation would not be a big deal to set up</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">or monitor, I wouldn't think.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It would allow threads to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">self-organize, it would make it easy for people to participate at</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">their level of expertise while still having an easy way to "evesdrop"</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">or even kibbutz on discussions at other levels.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Anyone care to explain why this would not be a good thing?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>It might work for some people. It wouldn't work for me.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have a great email program, and I live in it. I use it as a partial to-do list, it has good search features, etc. It archives, and I take the info with me everywhere on my laptop -- and could even put messages on my iPod if I really felt like being weird. I can choose whether and how to file things.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>At some point some of my friends moved to live journal, and other social networking sites. I didn't get emails about what was up with them, no personal convo, and they said "if you want to know what's going on with me, come to my live journal page" -- guess what? It doesn't work for me. I check 2 things constantly. My email, and my news reader. There's not a single website I check constantly -- though RSS can bridge that gap. I love RSS. I love email.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now if someone says "read my live journal" my answer is "send me the RSS link". :P I don't want to GO to the pmwiki user's forum. I want the pmwiki user's emails to come to me. I'm too busy to remember to do it any other way.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If someone created forums that resolved that problem, I'm all for it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>