On Apr 14, 2011 2:29 PM, "Wesley Werner" <<a href="mailto:wesley.werner@gmail.com">wesley.werner@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > I'm with Raoul on this one. Lists work on mobiles and are more appropriate because of it! (Although Blackberries can only reply before, and not within, the quoted text :( ) > -----Original Message----- > From: Raoul Snyman <<a href="mailto:raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za">raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za</a>> > Sender: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:05:45 > To: Ubuntu South African Local Community<<a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Reply-To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] A Local forum > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:58:35 +0200, Daniël Louw <<a href="mailto:daniel@dline.co.za">daniel@dline.co.za</a>> > wrote: > > I always wondered why is everyone still using mailing lists. It's quite > an > > old and resrticted form of mass communication imho. > > Yes, but at least with a mailing list you don't have to remember to go to > the forums and check for new posts... the problem with even our current > forum on Ubuntu Forums is that people forget to go back, and thus it > becomes unintentionally neglected and/or deserted. > > I personally like the fact that I don't have to remember to go anywhere to > take part in discussions with the community, they arrive in my inbox every > day :-) > > -- > Raoul Snyman, B.Tech IT (Software Engineering) > Saturn Laboratories > m: 082 550 3754 > e: <a href="mailto:raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za">raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za</a> > w: <a href="http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za">www.saturnlaboratories.co.za</a> > b: <a href="http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za">blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za</a> > > -- > ubuntu-za mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> > -- > ubuntu-za mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> +1 for mailing lists. They are clean and out of the way. At first when i did not understand lists, I preferred forums, but once I got used to it and realised the benefits it was like heaven B-) Forums also tend to become entangled and a navigation nightmare. -- Sent from my Android