I can think of another advantage: avoiding the potential embarassment of replying to the entire list instead of just the original email author, especially wrt more personal matters!
Although I can see how people may like the convenience of having news delivered straight to their inbox, instead of having to go to a separate website/online forum, the advantages of a bulletin-board forum certainly outweigh what we currently have.
Cheers,
Karen
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>>> Graeme Ford <[log in to unmask]> 06/01/05 1:40 pm >>>
This is very true, and the forum allows for a wide range of material to be
uploaded to it, including pictorial data, documents, audio and video
files...while not makign any restraints on peoples personal inboxes (in
relation ot their Internet connection speed rate). In time, if the idea of
the onlien forum takes off, maybe small amounts of psonsorship money can
be made available (or even within the group) so that every member can
store informaiton and documents on the server..bringin together a
colelction of materials related to critical geogrpahy discussion...
Graeme (www.cgfonline.co.uk)
> I suppose that another advantage to a forum cf. mailng list is that large
> attachments could have a separate storage space...
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