'Rooting' was absolutely accurate when he described email listings being
'antique', but it would be more descriptive to say it's 'archaic' from a
technological perspective. I have wide interests, and read across the
board in many disciplines and I simply don't know anyone still using
mailing lists as a repository of information. You said " I want to see a
better argument against the email list than that somebody thinks it is
"antique"." Well, with technology this is a very real, and good
argument. Just as a good reason why NOT to buy a Model 'T' Ford would
be that you just can't find parts to them. I'm not saying that it
wouldn't be cool to have one, but it's functionality is greatly
diminished if not pretty much useless.
I personally don't know anyone who wants to pour through around 100
emails a day just to get to information they are interested in.
I myself considered turning off the email flood I get from NAFEX becauseThere isn't usually anywhere near this much of it! (I say, contributing yet again to the pile). And what I do when I'm too busy is, I don't go to the boards at all; so I just miss discussion on boards entirely. I rarely go back through the archives when I do get time to go back on. If it comes into the email box, I at least glance at it, and get some sense of what's going on.
it's just way too much.
I like the mailing list too. I like the chatter coming to me, not
me having to go find it. I can always google a topic for
information, but what happens on this NAFEX list seems to me to be
more of the kind of talk one would have over a backyard fence with a
neighbor who also gardens or grows fruit trees.
The backyard 'over-the -fence' exchange is certainly archaic and
antique, but it suits me just fine. If all this chatter goes to a
bulletin board where I have to search out various threads and try to
remember what I was interested in and where it was, searchable or
not, I would not be bothered to do it.
Send it to my in box and I read some, scan through some, save some,
delete some. What I end up with is the lore of the members in my
own useful format: a folder, a note on an index card, a printout.
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