Dan Shafer wrote:
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>  
>  I don't subscribe to the list by email any longer (though I spent
>  the past year doing so) because I found it too cluttered an
>  experience, regardless of whether I used the digest or dealt with
>  individual emails. Following threads was very difficult at best and
>  filtering out topics in which I was not interested proved all but
>  impossible.

Ah, I wondered where you'd gone ;-)
I think Rosemary makes the point beautifully:

>  The issue, I think, is having a variety of tools for different mindsets
>  that captures the same material.

For me, that's the issue: all the tools must make the material available
to *all* the others, otherwise we effectively dilute the community.
Otherwise, well, I quite like bulletin boards.

Cheers

John

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