[Coco] Mailing lists vs web forums (was: OS-9 Book)

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I agree that AVS, my main forum is flawed in all the ways stated and I
dislike it for these flaws and have since I first signed on for the same
reasons.

The threads I read are enormously long and the AVS search is not useful for
me. But users have been trained to use these so if you are reading all
messages you are not missing much.

But Google search will find messages in the AVS forum and others, something
very useful. Is CoCo indexed by Google?

It's a love / hate relationship and all the experts for the hardware I have
are posting on the proper AVS threads so you get quick and CORRECT answers!

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lothan" <lothan at newsguy.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Book

>> There are also good reasons I dislike using web-based forums. Web forums
>> can't track what I have read vs. what I have not read; at best, they
>> record
>> the last message I read or the last message that existed at the time I
>> last
>> logged on. Many web forums don't even track what I've read so it can be
>> difficult keeping up with conversations in multiple threads.
>>
>> Most web forums present flat threads so it can be difficult to track
>> individual threads of thought and long threads can be scattered across 10
>> or
>> more web pages, thereby making it even more difficult to keep up with the
>> last posts in each thread.
>>
>> There's also the issue of advertisements and ad tracking in web forums
>> that
>> you typically don't get in a mailing list or newsgroup. The one you
>> mentioned for example is tracked by Google AdSense, Chikita, and
>> Quantcast.
>>
>>