Email Lists

• What are the pros and cons of email lists versus discussion boards?

• Are there certain kinds of communication or purposes more suited to one than the other?

Email Lists are like a phone book of people who live in the suburb of topic X
Discussion boards are like the local pub in the suburb of topic X

If you want to just hang out and catch up , you go check out the discussion board...
If their is urgent news "a bush fire is coming" you contact everyone ASAP using the phone book or email list...

If you got big news and go to the pub at the wrong time of days no ones there and you news falls on def ears, and slowly gets picked up... however if you have no news and look at the phone book its not going to do you any good... "joining the Email list, phone book will help others contact you if their is urgent news on topic X"

Log on to a discussion board when everyone's asleep to find out the news works... but wont get much of a 2 way discussion untill people wake up... checking ones email will also find out the news but even if people are awake brings no discussion...

It really comes down to one of 4 views, the first 2 are obvious the second 2 are less obvious
Combining Intent "to learn or share" with Justification "Beleif or True Knowing" the 4 are obvious and make the use of Discussion boards or Email lists just as obvious...

1 have factual info your knowledgeable about want to share, "SHARER"
mailing list best, discussion board good
A teacher, a Child who just learnt something, or anyone who just saw a BUSHFIRE comming to the town, all has TRUTH TO SHARE

2 have no info want to catch up on any missed info, "SEEKER"
discussion board good, mailing list good
Bored people, or people in the habit of seeking TRUTH are seekers of info...

3 have info want to discuss "QUESTIONER" "unsure maby or still have questions, or not quiet got the whole picture" discussion is best, mailing list is arrogant "if your unsure best not to mass email ignorance around"
This is like the child seeker whos aware of a topic but dosnt understand it yet, Questioning is GREAT and the key to learning, however dont pester EVERYONE with mass emails, its like crying wolf, hastle the wrong people with stupidity all the time, when you finally have something good to share with a mass email it will probably be ignored...

4 have no info, want to vent, or share dreams and beleifs, with no essence of fact or knowlidge
" BELEAVER " also known online as Zelots who preach beleif and ignorance and have contempt for facts, These people ignore truth decency or facts, and usually dont even care about the email topic or group their using the list from "their is no difference bere to the Zelot preachers, or the Teli marketing who call your phone, they just use easy obtainable lists of what they presume are suckers "as so many fall for their spell" and they soon start beleiving in their own Delusion...
Like the preists who compiled lists of inquisition for those not agreeing in the beleif of a FLAT WORLD... to the teli marketer who got you name and number from some other BELEIF pusher who got you to beleive you needed something they sold you, and got a tick in the suckers box next to your name...