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Subject: [SECC] Fwd: [SEDXC] The new SEDXC Discussion Board
From: nj8j at arrl.net (Ben Coleman NJ8J)
Date: Mon Oct 4 21:47:09 2004
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Jay Pryor wrote:
| The purpose of my email was to question
| whether the SECC wanted to do the same kind of thing.

Personally, I find web-based discussion groups a pain, and prefer either
email reflectors (mailing lists) or newsgroups.  With either of the
latter, there are readily-available tools (email clients and
newsreaders) that make it fairly easy to customize and automate the
reading environment to my own preferences.  With a web-based discussion
group, you're pretty much stuck with whatever limited customization that
the server-side discussion software provides.  Further, since reception
of email typically results in a local copy (or, in my case, a copy on
the local network) of the messages, I generally find that I can get
through a given number of email messages much faster than I get through
an equal number of messages on a web-based discussion board.  The local
message can be brought up on my screen much faster than if I have to
talk to a web server over the (much slower) DSL or dialup line.

I'd vote no.  The reflector isn't broken, don't fix it.

Ben
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