Hi Cameron,

I hear what you are saying, but we are already finding that the new forum is
much more active than these Yahoo forums, and that is the whole point - to
energize our user community and integrate it better with our website.

People weren't going to the Yahoo forum often to search for answers, and the
lack of threaded discussion was daunting to most users.

--Justin
SplashData



On 3/26/08 5:48 PM, "Cameron Simpson" <cs@...> wrote:

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> On 13Mar2008 12:35, SplashData <moderator@...
> <mailto:moderator%40splashdata.com> > wrote:
> | No, that is the unfortunate thing. You have to go to the forum to post.
>
> Well that is a shame. I find forums utterly useless and MUCH prefer
> mailing lists or usenet news. You see, they come to me. A forum means I
> have to go to you.
>
> Wil a mailing list I can just let it accumulate in a mail folder
> and then mine it later when I want to read it or search it, or post to the
> list with a query and read the folder regularly while participating.
>
> Forum user interfaces as usually inferior too. With email you get to read and
> post using the interface you like. For me this is mutt with a good text
> editor; of course other people have their own preferred mailer but the point
> is that they have _chosen_ it because they like it. You, the list
> provider, are not tasked with presenting an interface to please everyone
> (it will never please me, for example, because I find forums painful).
>
> Please consider gatewaying the forum posts, correctly threaded, to a mailing
> list or gmane interface and provide a by-email posting address.
>
> What, if I may ask, was the rationale for making a forum and ditching
> the mailing list?
>
> The neat thing about Yahoo or Google groups and their like is that they
> behave as mailing lists for people like me and can be used as forums by
> people who like that kind of thing.
>
> I like your apps - I use SplashShopper all the time.
>
> Cheers,




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