Category: Safe Haven
Hi all,
I was just thinking about the differences between email lists and message boards, and I've come to the conclusion that I prefer message boards over email lists. It's easier to find topics you posted in on message boards, if your memory can be jogged by the topic title. On high traffic email lists, it's harder to find messages you replied to, if there are a lot of messages. If I posted a few topics the day before, or replied to others posts, the first thing I liked to do is check and see if anyone replied to my posts. I'm mainly a me person, and finding replies is always a priority for me, lol. I even created a folder called, me, and named the filter, myself, and created a filter so that any messages that were directly for me would go straight in that folder. Of course I had to choose where the word contains, and had to include nicknames that different people knew me by, like, wonderwoman, tc, Terry, etc. Of course if people replied to me, and didn't call me anything, the filter didn't work very well, so scratch that idea.
Also, even though on some listsyou're encouraged to jump in, The topics seemed more geared for those whohad known each other for years, and had the same things in common. They have their own history, their own banter, none of which I was apart of, so now, I'm only on one or 2 email lists that have a verylow minimum of messages.
I find I now prefer boards to email lists. Any thoughts?
I pretty much agree with you, Wonderwoman. SOmetimes E-Mail lists are good, but after being on a very high traffic list and spending lots of time sifting through the hundred messages a day looking for good ones, I unsubscribed and didn't come back. I like low-traffic lists, though I'm not on one at the moment, and I like lists such as for web site updates, like newsletters, taht are low traffic and only webmasters or the site owner themsevles can post. But boards are much more organized (generally). So I think they'[re both good at different times.
Caitlin
Hi Caitlin,
Well, I'm trying now to get my in box to the point where there only messages for me alone, personal conversational emails. Email has about lost its appeal for me, except conversational chatty emails. I'm not in to the forwards thing, where someone puts you in to his/her address book, then they send forwarded things that originated from someone you don't even know, and it goes to you and a bunch of other folks they have in their address book, also people I most likely don't know. When I first got on the internet and was looking for things to do, I was after all the email I could get, now I'm in to other things, and don't have the time and patience to read anything except chatty conversational messages from friends I've made.
wonderwoman
I don't have a preference. Really, the quality of a list depends on who posts what. You have to test-drive a lot of e-mail lists in order to find the right one for you. You might find one with lots of traffic but nobody is really having conversation, but just keeping up chatter for its own sake. Then you can have a list that might be smaller or have a more moderate bit of traffic and it might be more interesting.
That's true Labyrinth, but I haven't been on an email list yet where I didn't get burnt out on it, and lose enthusiasm for it. I'm still on the voice programs mailing list, but might be unsubscribing from it soon, because there's getting to be a bit of spam there, and when someone does post a message about a voice program, I don't know if it's the real thing, or spam, targeted for people who are interested in that.
wonderwoman
I agree with you two. I get burned out on mailing lists sometimes.
Caitlin
Well, the good thing is, if you get burnt out on message boards, they don't keep collecting in your in box, you can just walk away without unsubscribing or doing anything.
wonderwoman
MSN and Yahoo Groups are kinda like messenge boards/email lists. I say this is you have the option of getting that day's bundle in your email. And me being on a few a while back it's nothin but a email hog. I'd get somewhere between 10 to 20 emails a day depending on how much traffic is on that group. Message boards are much nicer i.e. The Zone's Boards or EPals. Message boards like that that can be organized much neater.
I have tried a email list on my site and it was more of a noosense if you ask me. I mean a few people would reply to them and well we just all agreed it was a message hogger so we went for a message board from proboards. I like the zone's boards a bit better because it's not in table format.
Well I've never been on any yahoo message boards, and I don't know if the msn boards are accessible or not. most people say no, but that one guy, the one who got in an uproar about the use of the word blind says his brother in law is, "visually impaired" and he has no problem, but most people say they aren't, but if yahoo is going to start using those images everywhere, I don't know if they're accessible anymore or not, have to check them out sometime. I have a schedule in a few minutes, but will check the yahoo boards sometime tomorrow maybe.
wonderwoman
Hi All,
Well, I think message boards are a bit better than E-Mail lists. I love the Zone's boards, they're so simple. I think they homemade them, though, and so there's no way one could get this style on their site, unless they duplicated them by hand? Which is a shame.
Caitlin
well, I was just on the yahoo groups. I typed in yahoogroups instead of just www.yahoo.com.
What I saw there looked like email lists, some of the same lists I was even on, and got off of. Where do I go on there to find the boards only, and not the mailing lists? I saw a link there for each one to join this group, but was afraid to, afraid I'd be put back on a mailing list. I saw one there that blind-cafe, but there were only 12 messages on that.
wonderwoman
Not sure, Wonderwoman. Sorry. Is there a link that says Message Boards or something? Anywhere? Lol?
Caitlin
I thought when it said groups, it meant message boards, and if it had been boards, it would've said so. I thought email lists would've said lists, or email lists. Hmmm, not sure, instead of typing in www.yahoogroups.com, maybe I should type, www.yahoomessageboards.com, or maybe www.yahoo.com/boards? I just don't know.
wonderwoman
Well, I went back, and didn't see anything that said message boards, oh well, guess that's just that.
wonderwoman
Wonderwoman, Due to prior experience, I would suggest not typing in URLs and seeing what comes up. For example, once I forgot to put a dash into a seb URL of a young teen band, and I ot taken to a site with objectionable material. And once a friend of mine put an extra O in Google by mistake and something bad happened. SO be careful. If you're looking for Yahoo boards, maybe you should go to www.google.com and type in, "Yahoo! Message Boards" or forems or something like that. Just a suggestion. Hope this helps you.
Caitlin
thanks Caitlin, I'll try that and see how it goes. I sure don't want to get on all those email lists again, but I'm message board happy now.
wonderwoman
The other reason why I can't stand email lists is. On for the people, they had a mailing list on yahoo. I opted to join and I checked the option to check the content on the browser, not by email. Because I only get so much space for email on my ISP. And for 4 weeks straight I kept getting threats to either change my status to email or admins notes something like that or they would remove me from their list. Not only was I ahead of them by removing myself from their lists, they kept emailing me!!!!!!!!!! I also complained to yahoo groups about spam and threats. But yahoo never does anything about it.
I was on the peeps talk email list for a while, but they had so many articles that didn't interest me, and had nothing to do with the site, so I unsubscribed. I was on their announcement list, but none of their events interested me, so I'm not on it anymore. I don't even go on the site anymore. I'm totally disillutioned with it, so I just gave up on it.
wonderwoman
Yeah I'm not on any lists right now either. Message boards are fine with me! Lol.
Caitlin
yes, they're so much better. I did go to google, and type, yahoo message boards, and put it in quotation marks, so google would look for that exact phrase, but it came up with some messages where someone was talking about some sort of stock quotes, or financial stuff, and since that's not what I had in mind, I typed yahoo blind message boards, then google told me it didn't find any matches, and it told me toremove the quotation marks to broaden my search, but I know if I do that, I probably will come up with a bunch of random stuff that has nothing to do with anything I'm looking for.
wonderwoman
Wonderwoman, if you're just looking for any message boards, why not type "Message Boards" or maybe evenn "Clean Message Boards" into google? Or maybe "Message BOards for the BLind?". Hope this helps.
Caitlin
Hi Caitlin,
That might work, that may be better than typing in yahoo message boards. I'll do it that way and see what comes up.
wonderwoman
Sometimes, for me, being on high-traffic e mail lists is hard. But especially with my guide dog lists, I enjoy the lists and learn tons, which will come in handy next year. The traffic gets to be rough and it takes time to check/reply to e mails now. For almost a year I set all my lists to nomail, but now that my app is in at GDF I am back on the lists.
However, I like message boards too. So either one.
In Him,
Dixie
Hi Dixie Girl,
Yes, some email lists are valuable, some for different reasons, and depending on what you're in to. I was on the jaws light list when I got on the net, and it was a big help for a while. I'm not on any major lists right now, only one or 2 that are so light in traffic, I forget I'm even on them. Welcome aboard.
wonderwoman
I prefer message bords do to the reasons listed. Also not sure about other providers, but if your email address bounces with yahoogroups you have to go through hell to unbounce it and it's a pain.
Troy
Hey Dixie, what guide dog list are you on? I may wanna join that?
Caitlin
Caitlin,
I am on several lists, if you want the info, pm me. I'll get it all to you.
take care,
Dixie
Thansk Dixie, I'll be in touch.
Caitlin