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So the consensus is that an email listserv is the way to go. Now we just
need to find a listserv.
Steven Buss
sbuss@xxxxxxxxxxx
Walnut Creek, CA, USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Leighton Dixon <rldixon@xxxxxxxx>
To: metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, February 21, 1998 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Options Discussion Group
>At 09:34 AM 2/21/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>My thought is that a mail list forum would be preferable because it takes
no
>>effort to see all the postings when retrieving mail. But that's just my
>>preference. Others may want a web based chat.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>Steven Buss
>>Walnut Creek, CA
>>sbuss@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Some years ago, I moderated an email-based discussion forum that tried to
>move to a chat format. I offer the following observations. YMMV.
>
>Chat suffers from the "synchronous" problem: everybody has to be on at the
>same time. Mailing lists are more effective for many people in different
>time zones.
>
>Social skills are less important in email based discussion than in chat.
>The "signal" in chat frequently deteriorates relative to "noise".
>
>I also find that mailing list forums tend to include more thoughtfully
>composed remarks than do web-based chats. Plus, maintaining multiple
>"conversations" is more difficult in chat than in email.
>
>Cheers,
>
>rld
>Richard Leighton Dixon
>rldixon@xxxxxxxx
>
>Disclaimer: Nobody agrees with me.
>
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