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On May 19, 2011 10:57 AM, "Vance Shipley" <<a href="mailto:vances@motivity.ca">vances@motivity.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:35:14AM -0500, David Mercer wrote:<br>
> } Can someone please elucidate the distinction between a mailing<br>
> } list and a forum?<br>
><br>
> I have come to the conclusion that what is beneath these sort<br>
> of debates amounts to a generational gap. Those who grew up<br>
> with a mouse in their hands have different expectations than<br>
> those of us who grew up with our hands planted on the keyboard<br>
> looking at a command prompt. As one of the later my view is<br>
> that the distinction is:<br>
><br>
> mailing list: push<br>
> forum: pull<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> -Vance<br>
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<p>Why can it not just be configurable on a person by person basis by editing their own user preferences on the mailing list server?</p>
<p>Certainly the mailing list software is not so poorly designed so as to require such a person specific option to be set only globally. ;-)</p>