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

[Walt Crawford]

I thought David's comment was right on the money. RSS solves the "too many
places to go to" problem.

It's not a universal solution any more than email is. There are no universal
solutions. For highly-interactive websites that you're actually involved
with on a daily or weekly basis, I'd never use RSS. But for things like most
liblogs these days, where something pops up once or twice a week, it's
ideal.

I never quite understood "Different horses for different courses" but I
think that applies here.

-walt crawford-

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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