I’ve been avoiding mailing lists for a long time because… well… I sorta hate them. I don’t find them to be a particurally useful way to communicate. However! Now that I have Gmail and can assign labels on the fly and view threaded conversations, they’re much better. I get really annoyed now when people changed the subject line for no good reason, though.
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Current Design Process for Digital Humanities | nirak.net on Some thoughts on Less CSS
- Tech Skills for New Librarians & Me (seeking advice) – Library Hat on Why every Library Science student should learn programming
- Jeremy Boggs on CSS teaching and wrapping block elements with an a tag
- Mom on Going to SXSW
- amy on Going to SXSW
Categories
No, no – lists are great ways to communicate many-to-many, surpassed only by usenet newsgroups. It’s just too bad about the spammers.
They’re like subject specific websites that get delivered right to you. They were “push” before Wired magazine even existed, let alone had a clue what “push” was. In terms of threading and control and moderation and organization, participatory web sites of various flavors can only wish to compete.
*sigh* I’m so old…
Well, that’s just it. Back in the day (1996-2003 ish?) I was subscribed to LOTS of mailing lists. The content was good, but the noise and the hard time following conversations was problematic. I got annoyed and unsubscribed from all. At the time, forums were huge on the internet, and seemed a much better way to communicate. (And, yes, I utilized usenet often as well…)
Gmail solves the difficulties following a conversation, which was one of the big annoyances.
I’m still holding out for the perfect communication vehicle….