<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div><div>What we are having right now is a group discussion.
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Hear hear! RSS is great as an alternative notification/"broadcast" tool but is not great at facilitating "flat" discussions in the style of mailings lists, which are appropriate in certain situations.
<br><br>Scott<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div>Mail is nice, as notification of what's being posted, but it's not a conversation.
</div><div>RSS is nice, as I can't filter on <a href="mailto:groups@weitzman.tejasa.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">groups@weitzman.tejasa.com</a> and subject line filtering doesn't work in mail.
</div><div>Mailing lists are conversations and that's what you want in a group. I won't be logging onto <a href="http://groups.drupal.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://groups.drupal.org
</a> through out the day to respond to the 9 different groups I am part of. I'll just browse the groups a few times a week.</div><div><br></div><div>What we are having right now is a group discussion.</div></div><div style="direction: ltr;">
<span class="sg"><div><br></div><div>Kieran</div><br>
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