[pct-l] salutations

[Jason Schripsema]

hehe, all joking aside, anyone know why this isn't a forum already?  

i've used both lists and forums and really folks, the forums are a lot easier - all the replies to one thread are right there in one place and you don't have to go digging thru your inbox to try to follow one conversation...


Patrick Beggan <meta474 at gmail.com> wrote: A user of a casual mailing list is indeed in the wrong time.

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On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:45, Greg Kesselring  wrote:

> A user of email is an anachronism?  hmmm.  Maybe I better alert the  
> company I work for.  Our entire company seems to be full of  
> anachronisms.
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> Patrick Beggan wrote:
>> I'm sure anachronisms everywhere feel the same way.
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>> And who said forums need be fragments? E-mail is only less organized
>> than forums. Everything else is the deal of writers of the English
>> language.
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>> On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:06, Gary Wright  wrote:
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>>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Patrick Beggan wrote:
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>>>> And don't feel bad that you don't know what it is -- mailing lists
>>>> are
>>>> by and large dead, replaced years ago by forums or chat rooms.
>>>>
>>> That is sort of like saying that radio is dead having been
>>> replaced by moving pictures and television.
>>>
>>> In any case, I almost always prefer interacting via my own mailbox,
>>> which tracks threads quite nicely, rather than clicking
>>> through endless page reloads on forums, or hoping to time
>>> things just right to find an interesting conversation on a
>>> chat room.
>>>
>>> It is very strange to to think that I'm considered a
>>> technological relic by rejecting the text/twitter/chat
>>> modes of communication in favor of full sentences and
>>> paragraphs via email.
>>>
>>> Radar
>>>
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