On 10/4/07, Don Sheldon <don.sheldon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > By which I of course mean "two and half, almost three." Yeah, I should have my Gmail account on the lists, here. I just like using my main domain e-mail with its paltry 10 MB (because it expects me to pull down e-mails, like, every ten minutes or whatever; but I haven't in months). It's funny, but I actually have come to abhor offline e-mail clients, because I have (or use) so many computers that it's a pain to try to maintain local e-mail on just oen of them (never mind scattered across several of them). It's the same reason I don't bother with offline HTML editors anymore, now that I have online editors on all my sites, be they wikis, CMSs, or forums--or just a quick FTP down, edit in Notepad, and FTP back up of simple pages. ...And occasionally Google Docs (I NEVER remember that I have those available for piddly stuff!). Web 2.0, baby! Catch it! ;) Anyhow, I have come to like forums with e-mail notifications (or replies, usually), which is a nice bridge between keeping me free of local applications while also giving me heads-up if things are going down in a thread I am watching. Wikis can't do that, that I can tell--I just looked on ours, and I could not find a "notify me via e-mail of edits to my watch list" check box. That, too, would be a solid bridge between offline (local) application (or online web e-mail readers) and the amorphous beast that is a wiki. But I'm sticking to my guns about listservs--just look at the number at Wunderland! Register for each separately, sort out by list name into folders (if you're AR, like I am), keep on top of deletions of threads I don't want to save--basically, I have to manually perform the functions that a good forum application with several targeted forums would do automatically... well, except the "saving threads" bit--though some have "bookmark thread" options, IIRC. Ultimately, it's a matter of taste. But I recommend that folks not get too attached to any local apps, because the future is thin-client, apps-on-demand, web-based storage, and server-side execution. If, that is, you want to use the latest software with the lightest, most powerful machines. Which I do... David