[Web4lib] Are e-mail discussion lists still relevant?

[David King]

Don't get me wrong, I see your point and agree with it. I was just
commenting on his part about having to go to individual websites... that's
the hard way to read a blog!

David Lee King
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:

>
> > Just a comment to that - use RSS - then you don't have to visit blogs,
> > wikis, and web forums individually. With RSS, everything comes to you in
> > one
> > place ... just like an email list.
> >
> > Just sayin.
>
> If you are engaging with peers, colleagues, friends, family, etc. (rather
> than simply having things "come to you"), then RSS is not quite as
> effective. It may point you to ongoing conversations but you will still
> have
> to use another tool to participate.
>
> I have found myself disengaging with RSS in some instances and going back
> to
> email because it was a more effective tool. That even includes some
> "read-only" behavior, such as commits for an open source project, news
> flashes, etc.
>
> Karen G. Schneider
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