[Coco] CoCoList and the Web, was Re: CoCoList Survey on email but no web browser access CoCo users.

[afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk]

Quoting Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net>:

> Steve Bjork wrote:
>> One the main reasons for this email list is so CoCo user that only have
>> email access can commutate with other CoCo users.
>
> Also because there's no viable alternative that isn't utter garbage. Web
> forums are universally value-free, so it doesn't matter that the CoCo list is
> the only game in town. Any possible replacement would be another email-based
> mailing list (and nothing but a duplication of what we have here), a
> Usenet-based auto-moderated group (thus stupidly limiting the audience), or
> Web-based (and thus be worthless crap, like the CoCo3.com forums are).

To use an ananolgy from programming I/O, mailing lists are inturrupt  
driven, web forums are polled. So asuming you keep your email running  
in the background you'll get a notification when a message comes in,  
whereas with a forum you have to poll it (by going and checking it).  
Mind most forums can be configured to mail you when someone posts a  
reply, but then that's sent by email.....

Cheers.

Phill.



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