Björn Lindqvist wrote:
Why I prefer BBS:es:
- Discussion is closer to content because both are webbased.
Oh, ****. I still hate it to search some hours to get a overview of all disscussed subjects inside Wikipeda with this stupid Discussion/Talk pages.
Mails are coming full automaticly on my system at home, are sorted into IMAP Folders and the next new message is at keystroke distance (mostly ''delete'' or 'Next Message''. An I don't have to wait for a webserver to serve a page. I bet pressing a key to get the next message from your local mailfolder is 1000 times faster than any BBS System.
Diskusstion don't have to be close to the content. A little bit of distance helps to write proper messages.
The rest Erik has still written enought about. BBS are no proper (fast) way to discuss. If you are subscribed to 20 Mailinglists, no problem to get this managed. 20 BBS meens 20 Browser tabs, a lot of traffic (reloads to check it somethings happend), instead the easy message drops of mailinglist.
I can say that I stopped every participation at projects switched to BBS (webbased).
Smurf