I think there are advantages and disadvantages to both. Forums are
nice because they segregate messages by topic. In the same respect
they can be bad because often one subject leads to another and useful
discussion takes place in a forum not related to the topic. And I am
sure there are many other valid arguments on both sides.

I agree with Ryan though, it comes down to what people get used to
doing and it is extremely difficult to change mid-stream. I saw this
with the Carving Consortium -- they had a Yahoo group for a long time
and people were comfortable with that scenario. For a while they did
both the Yahoo list and a Forum, and then went to strictly the
Forum. Many people left -- just never made the switch.

SpringChick


--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Wes Garrison"
wrote:
>
> I've always preferred mailing lists to online forums.
> I can't take a forum with me on my laptop.
>
> 'Course, I still read newsgroups, the original mailing list
> and forum.
>
> -- Wes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rayvenhaus [mailto:rayvenhaus@m...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:29 PM
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [LbNA] new letterboxing group (yet another)
>
> ...
> I don't really like mailing lists because things get so out of
> hand, not to say that they can't and haven't on a forum.
> ...