At 01:01 AM Wednesday 10/22/2008, Dave Land wrote: >On Oct 21, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Wayne Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Should it move to a newer type of platform? Facebook or a wiki > >> maybe? Does the list have a life of its own? Does it somehow > >> attract the type of member that will enable it live forever? Are > >> monotonous posts and trolls and heated discussions the way it has > >> found to survive? > > > > I hate to pre-announce... but I'm working on installing a blog > > interface. I also hope to mirror that blog to another server, as > > backup. > >As long as the email interface persists, please. > >I like the fact that it comes to me, rather than my having one more >place to go to check out the goings-on. Several communities of which >I've been a part have "threatened" to go all-web (for various reasons) >and the practically universal response has been "but keep the emails >coming."
This happened a few months ago on another list I am on. The list owners presented it as a done deal that the e-mail list would be terminated and replaced by a blog-type forum run by the officers of the organization on such-and-such a date. (IIRC less than two weeks after the first mention of it to list members.) After many people stated that they preferred the e-mail list, and were told "No," and long time members of the list made their good-byes, those in charge changed their minds and re-started the e-mail list. >Which puts me a bit at odds with my employer, probably, since we make >our living by running web-based communities. One problem is that compared to an e-mail list like this, most of the "web-based communities" have too rigid a structure, while this is much like an informal conversation where one person says something and then someone else responds, etc., and there may be different individual conversations going on between subsets of the group at the same time, etc. Also, as someone has mentioned, many people prefer having the messages come to them (as on a list like this) rather than them having to remember to look somewhere else for them . . . . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
