On Tuesday 26 July 2005 02:34 am, Jaap van Ganswijk wrote: > I have set up a forum at: > > http://www.chipdir.nl/phpBB2/ > > Personally I like mailing lists very much, but > a lot of the new internetters don't seem to > understand that concept
The dumbing down of Internet. :-( Just one more forum I will not have time to check. :-< > This mailing list of course stays as it is, Thank you, but from past experience with these switch overs the forum is the death sentence for the list. The http://www.confluent.org/ is a good example. It was a active list before the forum and now it is 100% dead. >The ideal way to do that would be to link the mailing list to the forum >so that either was input to the same general knowledge base. Forum posts >would appear on the list, and list responses would appear on the forum. As long as spam harvesting of email addresses can be prevented. >The list traffic has died off completely, unless I am missing 90% The list is that dead here as well. To:Subject: Worldwide Email Traffic Averaging 136 Billion Messages per Day, Says Radicati Group Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:22:00 PST A new study showing year-end market size, market share, and four-year forecasts (2005 - 2009) for all core market segments tracked by the Radicati Group, Inc. is now available. According to the study, there are about 684 million email users worldwide, with nearly 1.2 billion active email accounts. Worldwide email traffic per day totals about 136 billion messages, of which 64 percent are spam. http://www.industryanalystreporter.com/T2/Analyst_Research/ResearchAnnouncementsDetails.asp?Newsid=5457 -- http://www.softwaresafety.net/ http://www.unusualresearch.com/ http://www.bpaddock.com/ -- Author: Bob Paddock INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
