- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:02:26 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Again, for me, they do not. The simple requirement to create an account > is a huge barrier already. Generally, the purpose of web forums is to drive traffic to the web site, where it can be "monetised". That encourages fragmentation as everyone is trying to get traffic on a subject to their forum site. I've seen Usenet group die and end up fragmented because of this. There are a very large number of occasions where I think I could have contributed something useful (correct a misunderstanding) to an archived posting on a web forum, but have not been prepared to do a one off registration to do so. (Having to register and login is often there to allow for ad-rotation, rather than for the benefit of the subscriber.) -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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