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Forums are still closer to talking than they are to a book. It's just that the internet allows them to be async conversations. A forum is fairly equivalent to
by fastball 6y ago
Forums are still closer to talking than they are to a book.
It's just that the internet allows them to be async conversations. A forum is fairly equivalent to email, just usually more public than email and the underlying infrastructure isn't federated.
- the_af 6y agoAgreed. But like email, I expect forum threads/posts to stay indefinitely and be searchable, until I explicitly delete them. Email is a persistent conversation which gets archived indefinitely, not an ephemeral one like talking with our mouths.
- nine_k 6y agoYour personal email may be retained indefinitely. Corporate email (and IM, etc) gets purged pretty quickly, within 2-3 years, unless you save a particular message / thread explicitly.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoAren't they worried about losing most of the knowledge of the context of decisions made?