I have a phpBB discussion board just set up ... for the purpose of
discussing discussion boards. Why not take this discussion there ?
Then we can see immediately whether we prefer that model !
I have created a forum called "site model comparison" at
http://www.oktok.com/forums/

Edmund

 

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Dan Shafer wrote:

>  
>  It seems to me that if we moved from the older mailing list model 
>  to a true discussion board or Swiki model for all of our 
>  discussions, we'd all be enriched and our experience would be 
>  both more effective and more efficient. But I never hear anyone 
>  suggest this, which indicates perhaps I am alone in my feeling 
>  that this is such an archaic and relatively inefficient way of 
>  dealing with such material.
>  
>  If Swiki isn't the right tool -- and I see some drawbacks to it that 
>  are addressed in every good discussion board tool I know about 
>  -- then perhaps a real discussion board tool is?