<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 9, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Dan Robinson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">of course - understood. but the question is</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">DB->RSS->mail<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>or</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">DB->Mail</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Actually I think it's:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Groups <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </SPAN>-> Content (DB) -> Mail</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </SPAN> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </SPAN>-> Content (DB) -> RSS</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">                </SPAN>-> Content (DB) -> Mailing List</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><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">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">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 class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What we are having right now is a group discussion.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kieran</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>