On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 01:52:51PM -0800, 'david@bestservices IMAP 2' david@... [felder-woodworking] wrote:
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| Yes, it¡¯s not free. ? But I¡¯m certain there are enough among us on FOG
| willing to contribute to more than cover the costs mentioned in Brian¡¯s
| post.
I would also be willing to contribute. But what matters more to me is
the way conversations are delivered. If I have to go to a website and
carefully scan every new topic that's been posted to extract the parts
that are worthwhile, that's a poor use of time. Eventually I'm going to
be unwilling or unable to spend that time. That issue is precisely why
I look at the Festool Owners Group (among others) only every week or
two, but I keep up with the Felder Owners Group every day.
The big advantage of email delivery is that email software is highly
optimized for dealing with hundreds of messages a day, sorting them out
into what's important and what's irrelevant, and even saving (locally)
the stuff that's crucial for future reference. The Web forum software
that I've seen is far slower and more cumbersome.
Those of you who've been around for a while may remember the heyday of
Usenet newsgroups. Software like trn ("threaded read-news") allowed me
to sift through thousands of postings every day, displaying the threads
I wanted to follow automatically while deep-sixing the rest (without
preventing me from going back to search for them and look at them in the
future if I changed my mind). All with a user interface that was
concise and INSTANTLY responsive, because you never had to wait for a
message to be delivered. If such a thing exists for web forums, I'd use
it enthusiastically, but I just haven't seen it. In the meantime, email
delivery with a website fallback is the next-best option.
Those of you who use tiny screens without keyboards as your only
interface to the Internet probably feel differently. For you I can only
recommend voice-controlled AI. :-)
Allen
Allen Akin