I prefer the mailing list for several reasons: 1- I am on dial-up. I can just "let it download", and then come back to read the messages as quickly as I like - web based clients are SLOW on dial-up, and you have to be there to click on every item you want to read, so you have to wait for it. This by itself would probably be a show stopper for me. 2- The list comes as nice plain text. If I want to save something, I simply save it - Saving text from the web is usually (not always, but usually) much more a pain in the butt. 3- Many sites nowadays use "extensions" and other goodies (and I use the term loosly) which make them unreadable on my anicent browser... It's fine to say "you just have to upgrade your browser", however there ARE no newer browsers for the particular platform that I use - If staying connected to this list means that I have to change to a "modern" OS, then I would simply wave goodbye and bow out. I expect there are a few others who would do the same... 4- Another point relating to #3 - this system I am using does not EVER download a "plug in" or applet and run it - attachments that I do accept NEVER automatically launch themselves (and if they did, they wouldn't know how to run here) ... so this machine has no "anti virus" software, doesn't need it, and never gets "infected" (because it never auto-runs anything). I have no doubt that a web based interface would have all kinds of neat-cool java applets, plug-ins and other things which compromise security - Even though the "list" site might be safe, forcing people to turn these things on will cause trouble for those of us who choose to avoid them. 5- The mailing list has an element of privacy - Since you have to both know about it and manually subscribe to it, there's a good chance that by the time someone shows up here they really are more than casually interested in classic computers. Once we get links from non-classic sites (hey, here's a place where I've seen XP installs discussed), and indexed by the search engines, you can bet that non-topic material will rise. Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html