RE: [Meta] EMail vs BBS (RE: [Meta] Spontaneous Order?)

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 00:17:34 MDT


> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
>
> > I've been wondering about the use of the BBS vs use of
> plain old email. I'm
> > an email guy myself. What are other people using? Are a lot
> of people using
> > the BBS? Any stats?
>
> You can see whoever uses BBS by mangled quoting

So it's as good as outlook then?!?!

> (and YaBB as
> X-Mailer in
> the rich headers). As far as I can see very few people are
> using the BBS.

Still, it's nice to have it.

It does do well to remember every now and then that this has been an email
forum for a long time, and that the majority of its users like it that way.
For all its dumbness, email is very accessible, difficult to block, and can
work nicely in an offline mode (which websites cannot).

Emlyn

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