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Re: A technical question about the list

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, December 11, 2003, 22:35
En réponse à Gary Shannon :


>Plus, the volunteer moderators keep things running >smoothly and do a good job of keeping out flame wars >and spam. It's something to think about. Take a look >at some of the groups I linked to above and I think >you'll see the advantages.
I'm personally against forums for the kind of discussions we have on this list, where threads can easily break up into subthreads and go in all directions. I personally find forums to be difficult to browse and very counter-intuitive (it may be just me though). At least here I just filter the mail from this list to a Conlang mailbox and I can read it as I wish without difficulty, no need to hunt down posts as I usually have to do on forums. I also prefer posts to be in plain text, with occasionally a link or too. Pretty formatting is more a nuisance than an advantage here. Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.