[p2p-research] p2presearch Digest, Vol 19, Issue 153

[marc fawzi]

you can tag the subject line with standardized words e.g.*Money*, *General*
etc, that we agree to as a group (and can be added it, amended) so that
people can setup filters (e.g. in gmail) to filter in/out messages with
specific tags


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:47 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 16:15:22 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > The only way this can work is:
> >
> > - either through forum software, where discussions can be organized
> > in subject threads
>
> I've already written about how to make mailing list conversation more
> efficient in another reply. With respect to this, I strongly advice
> against forums. It is much more efficient and faster to have all
> mailing lists in ONE window where you can always, immediately reply
> with YOUR, always equal, preferred interface and settings than setting
> signature, etc... in the same number of forums and surfing to them to
> reply. Not to mention the fact that you can reply to an email and send
> it the next time you're online, while you can't reply offline to a
> forum, posting the same message to more places (if really necessary)
> or to more people is much slower with forums...
>
> Besides the general problems of forums, this particular list is
> "doomed" by its very nature to host lots of different topics,
> sometimes interrelated sometimes not. To organize discussions it may
> be enough to enforce adoption of proper subject lines, so people just
> avoid to open the threads they have no interest in.
>
> Marco
> --
> Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
> software is used *around* you:            http://digifreedom.net/node/84
>
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