Why web forums don’t mail you repiles to your posts

Posted on April 29th, 2004 by Sacha Chua

If they mailed you responses, they’d effectively kill the community.
C’mon, are you going to keep checking back there? I wouldn’t. Good
point. Very very true.

Joel on Software – Building Communities with Software

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