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Re: What is happening to Panotools list?
Christian Bloch 2012-Feb-16 10:06:59
Yo Sam,
Well said. Thanks for breaking a stick for forums. ;)
I see them differently than email, more like a public archive of information. In the long run I find google-ability most important. FB has its convenience, and the social hangout stuff is surely nice. I may join the pack when I find the time to stir things up. Until then I hope the good old folks will occasionally stick their head in here?.
Blochi
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:17 AM, Sam Rohn wrote:
> hi erik -
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> sorry, i meant no offense to this list or list members, but...
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> adding images to posts in goggle group lists via web interface is super easy, there is a proper upload image button in the post reply formatting area, and no similarly easy to use feature on yahoo groups
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> also, much better handling of the endlessly quoted replies that make this type of mailing list so tedious to follow, read, search etc, forums are far most configurable in terms of layout, options, flat view, easy to fix OT posts, etc, as opposed to poking through mssg by mssg in an email program, or the dated yahoo web view
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> i would also think that forums are hardly a fad, using email for a group like this was a nice workaround in its day, but it would seem to me that forums have been the standard tool that most online communities use to communicate for quite some time now, if the rest of the internet is any indication of popularity
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> however, facebook is not well suited to long detailed conversations, and it does not replace email or forums but it is much better than email for a great many things, just takes a bit to get our heads around something new sometimes
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> again, no offense to the great community here, but it is the community that is valuable, not the technology of the list we use, and at the moment, facebook is a very popular tool which should not be so quickly dismissed, there is a reason that fb has over 700 million users and yahoo is sinking deeper into oblivion every year... :)
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> thanks
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> peace
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> sam
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> sam
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