Yes you are missing something because you totally ignored my point at the last meeting. Mails come in to my inbox at a rate or approximatly 7 and hour,
Welcome to the Internet. ;) You're not the only one swimming in mail. Mine is organised just fine, it's all filtered away tidily. I'll happily help you set up procmail mail filters for RedBrick, if you like. :)
and It's gotten to the point my account is having to be emptied several times a week, meaning all mails have to be deleted and thus no record is being
I haven't deleted any mail for years. Use gmail or RedBrick, both will give you as much storage space as you like, and both support using a real (POP/IMAP) mail client.
kept of what was decided. A board is logical, as it is dedicated to a single group and developements can be recorded and no mails missed. While you may not care about this, it is quite tiresome to have to delve through tons of
Forums are incredibly tiresome. Compare the speed at which I can scan through my mail, switch messages, send a reply in a real client, and then how long it takes to do it on a forum in a browser. Treacle.
tangents in an arseways order and then having to delete them, all this time
A forum will not solve tangents, people will still make off-topic posts.
missing information because one simply has too much bloody spam to get through. Not all of us have the luxuary of spending most of our college time on a computer in all fairness, and this committee has spent more mails then any
I may spend most of my time at a keyboard, but I sure as hell don't spend it organising my mail. :)
other committee before it.
A board will allow us to sort our conversations in a logical order, and seperate real issues from fleeting ones, and avoid the mirade of communication issues we have thusfar had.
I really do believe a forum won't help with this. I know whats going on, all my mail is threaded. I can only suggest you start using a real mail client that supports threading... (Thunderbird, OS X Mail, or even gmail...) http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/mailthreading.html Apologies for the Apple point of view, (I realise it's quite useless to you :) but it's rather hard to find a page with an example of Thunderbird's threading. It does support it though. :)
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We're not going to start using a dodgy remotely hosted forum.