I am really impressed by this forum. I am pretty ignorant. I really love hearing you all talk in such an expert way, AND I have found out some useful hints. Caroline<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/01/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Paul Tansom</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@aptanet.com">paul@aptanet.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
** alan c <<a href="mailto:aeclist@candt.waitrose.com">aeclist@candt.waitrose.com</a>> [2007-01-04 11:42]:<br>> Mr W. F. Vening wrote:<br>> > Is it only me that finds mailing lists to be very non user friendly?
<br>> > And IRC is quite good when there is a meeting going on but there is<br>> > not much which can get done when there is just a few active members.<br>><br>> I generally *only* use mailing lists and I do not find them a problem
<br>> at all.<br>> What is it that you find user unfriendly about a mailing list?<br>><br>> I do use various forums but never on a regular basis. I find web based<br>> access cumbersome.<br>><br>> It would be absolutely essential - for me - that a forum had a good
<br>> facility to receive and send email. There are very few of these I<br>> think. A notable type that I do use regularly is yahoogroups - they<br>> are both web based and also email based, and work well (on email
<br>> anyway). Yahoo took the facilty over from the earlier egroups some<br>> years ago.<br>** end quote [alan c]<br><br>Agreed. I may be a bit slow keeping up on this list at the moment, but<br>move to a forum (well, one that isn't transparantly accessible via a
<br>mailing list as well) and I'm gone - not a deliberate act of "I'm off",<br>more a case of I never get back to forums, but do check on mailing lists<br>as I check through my mail.<br><br>Hmm, just though, this is my first post so I ought to add a "Hi" to that
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