On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:10:44PM +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote: > Yes, we loose many who don't like mailing lists. A web-based forum would > loose many who don't like web-based forums. Likewise for a newspaper or > a local guild. Perhaps some other form would win more than it would > loose, I can not say. What I can say that we have a quite well > functioning mailing list with lots of good traffic. Having two > well-functioning systems with each their half of the population would - > in my humble opinion - be about half as good as now, since half the > people would miss half the discussion, and the other half would miss the > other half. > > Perhaps I am wrong. I will not stop anyone from starting a "competing" > forum. But until and unless someone manages to convince me of the > benefits of such, I will continue with this mailing list, and not lend > too much support for the alternatives.
Please god no! It's the same thing with all the US-based web-forums. People are starting to post the same freaking question on every forum out there to just up their 'post count'. Those are usually the question I make a point out of ignoring. Thomas - Now with two silver medals from NHBC!
