Re: [ATM] Time to change the list format?

[Dan Newman <dan.newman+atm@mtbaldy.us>]

Bob May wrote,

> I absolutely refuse to work a web based system as that is pure
> trouble for me.

I concur but for possibly different reasons: it is a constant battle  
for me
to minimize the number of "inboxes" in my life.  (This has nothing to do
with bandwidth as I have plenty of that.)   So, I would hope to see that
any new "forum" media would continue to have a bidirectional
e-mail-to-forum gateway.

Also, Peter Nance wrote in reference to web forums

 > Spam is non existent

Actually, spam is a very serious problem for web forums.  Ditto for
wiki's, blogs, instant messaging, text messaging (SMS/MMS), and,
believe it or not, it's an emerging problem for voice mail vendors.
It's all a matter of how well locally managed the medium is as to how  
much
of a problem it is.  [To some extent: Internet porn has made the Turing
test obsolete and for a couple of years now, spammers have geen giving
free porn in exchange for typing in those hard to read CAPTCHA (tm)
strings just so the spammers in a whack-a-mole fashion can get a new
account in the blog/wiki/whatever to spread more spam from.]
The upshot is that any electronic forum medium you care to name
has problem with spams.  YMMV.  [Okay, okay, you might be okay with
a BBS as long as you don't gateway e-mail to it.  Ditto for APRS ;-]

Regards,
Dan
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