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Forums
I have identified two types of forums - perhaps there are more - but for now call them open forums and closed forums.
In a closed forum, you ask a question of the person whose webpage it is. Only that person may answer you. And then your question and that person's answer will continue to remain on that web page for some period of time. In an open forum, you ask a question and anybody that happens to turn to the webpage may answer it - or reply to someone else's reply, etc. A doctor might choose to have a closed forum. A person would fill out a form with a letter to the doctor, the doctor would answer it, and the question and the doctor's answer would appear on the doctor's web page for possibly the next four weeks, during which time you (or others) may ask follow up questions. Of course the doctor has the option of not showing the questions and of not answering them. A teaching hospital might choose an open forum. A person would ask a question and a member of the hospital staff might choose to answer - and quite likely, it would be from a person at the hospital who is very well qualified to answer. Or it could be an answer from you or me. More likely answers would come from several people, and some of the answers in turn might have comments made upon them. It becomes apparent that for a forum to be effective, it must have traffic. As I go through pages to do further research for this web site, I intend to make a note at this website of the forums that I find. Example(s) of closed forums: Example(s) of open forums:
Also see this listing for archived posts.
Also see this listing for archived posts.
Also see this listing for archived posts.
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