Cameron - I agree with you - but I was called "resistant to change." I
will use the forums when I have a problem, but I won't stay current on
what's going on - the only forum I subscribed to was the announcement
one. And I feel they lost a sales tool since I won't hear about
creative uses of their software. Too many forums, as well. And the
SplashID for Palm forum as 3 threads, all about SplashID for Mac.

Dan

--- In SplashData@yahoogroups.com, Cameron Simpson <cs@...> wrote:
>
> On 13Mar2008 12:35, SplashData <moderator@...> 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,
> --
> Cameron Simpson <cs@...> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
>
> Wouldn't it be great if all emergency stopping situations occurred
on your
> favourite bit of road......you'd probably know about it before it
happened
> and would be able to take other evasive action.
> - Neville Brabet <idiot@...>
>