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

[Brian Gray]

I agree Karen. I even tried to use http://www.cocomment.com/ but found it
did not help keep me in the conversation. The application just was not
effective enough in its capabilities.

RSS is great if you a a lurker OR is the website offers a RSS for comments
directly.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com>wrote:

>
> 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.