Sheesh, I don't even want my name in this thread. :whistling :jester:
I've used both in the past, but I had a roll of mesh the other day so decided to use it with hot mud because I had it. It was on some small patch work. It just made a mess, came loose, slid around and generally sucked.
Then I used it on some foot long seams and it was ok, but didn't do anything different then paper. So there's my answer. I Dunno. :laughing:
To the OP, if you are thinking the paper will fall apart because of moisture, it won't. If moisture gets to the paper after taping, mudding, texturing, priming and painting you have much bigger problems. Of course, now we will start a thread discussing how I didn't do those in the right order. :whistling