Julia Thompson wrote:
> I'm getting new entries for one blog e-mailed to me. I usually click on
> the link to take me to the blog site because it's prettier than the
> e-mail, and if anyone's left a comment, that's how I'll see it, but if I
> didn't care about the aesthetics or comments, I could just read the
> e-mails and leave it at that.
>
> (The folks running that particular blog did *not* want an LJ syndication
> set up for it, and once I looked at the website and found out I could get
> new entries e-mailed to me, I signed up for that, so I'm still in my "only
> one site to check for everything not in e-mail" state.)
>
I've been through this a few times, and my experience is that moving to
a web-type forum generally means the end of the community. Sometimes I
think that is the intention ("I'm getting too much e-mail, how can we
cut it down?").
I have a quote in my sig file that goes "A university is what a college
becomes when it stops caring about its students." I think a corollary
should be that a web forum is what a discussion list becomes when people
stop caring about the conversation.
Regards,
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Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL
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