[BNM] I'm new here and curious why BNM isn't a forum

[Russell Beech]

"To be honest one of the reasons I am not active is because mailing
lists have no threading - no way of checking read posts etc
quickly....too time consuming."

Gmail?


2009/2/26 Dan Griffiths <dan at builtbybuffalo.com>:
> To be honest one of the reasons I am not active is because mailing
> lists have no threading - no way of checking read posts etc
> quickly....too time consuming.
>
> I already get enough emails to deal with and so I actually think I
> would prefer a forum but hey!
>
> Thanks
> Dan
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> On 26 Feb 2009, at 11:18, Martyn Fagg wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Adam Kemeny wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I realise that this may be an odd first interaction with BNM so
>>> please
>>> forgive me for this but I have to ask - Why isn't BNM a forum?
>>>
>>> I've searched the archives to see that the word "forum" only appears
>>> three times and never in regard to the question I'm asking. I know
>>> that this discussion list has been around for some years now so the
>>> fact that no-one appears to have asked this question before makes me
>>> feel a little like I'm wandering blindly into social oblivion.
>>
>> Welcome to BNM :)
>>
>> It has been asked before, and was generally regarded as a bad idea (I
>> can't recall how long ago that was, probably a few years ago).
>>
>> Personally I like it being an e-mail list as I rarely keep up to date
>> with other forums I join, but have been using BNM for about 7-8 years.
>>
>> Martyn
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