Jules Bean wrote:
I find it incredibly surprising whenever I discover than an otherwise sophisticated community has adopted a bulletin board rather than email ;)
Erm... why?
Conversely, a bulletin board cannot be read offline, traps users into a single UI (in every case I've used, slow, ugly, and lacking in functionality) over which they have no control.
Oh... I suppose. Still, a newsreader doesn't appear to have those limitations.
Modern email programs have sophisticated sorting, filtering, scoring, processes and they allow me to read messages while offline, search them locally, etc etc. They have customisable key bindings, they allow me to read all of my mailing lists in one place, they are scriptable, may support plugins... all of this under full user control.
I'd just prefer not to have to wait through 100 emails a day to find the few that interest me. With a newsreader, I can simply mark "ignore" on the threads that don't interest me, and I'm done. (Also, either my ISP or Thunderbird itself keeps magically "loosing" certain emails, which is rather irritating...)