In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was claimed to have wrote:
>We've been working behind the scenes for a while now to bring our >Resellers a much-improved forum for discussion of our services. >Effective December 1st, the old mailing lists will be closed down in >favor of an online discussion forum. > >Some of the reasons we've moved to a forum solution include: > > 1. archiving of older content, so you don't need to hang onto >those old email messages. > 2. searchability, so you can find the answer to that question >quickly If adding search capabilities to the old web interface is beyond Tucows' skillset, why not create an appropriate robots.txt and sitemap to allow Google to do this for you? > 3. simplicity, reducing a large number of different lists into a >manageable number of categories You could just reduce the existing number of lists. > 4. versatility, including a number of ways to keep up with new >posts (RSS, email alerts) huh? I am really scratching my head at this one. Right now I can get new posts via email, the web, NNTP, or RSS. What method does the new system offer that the current one doesn't? I can already tell you what I'll lose: Threading, offline archiving, the ability to have topics which interest me already flagged and those that don't automatically ignored. I lose my own local archive of my correspondence. I lost the ability to flag a message as interesting to respond or reference it later when it's lost in a long discussion thread. I haven't looked at the new forums yet, but I trust you have found a way to implement keyboard navigation, offline reading and posting, and have somehow solved the latency issues inherent to web based solutions? >One of my goals as Community Specialist is to build relationships with >our Resellers and to help you build relationships with your peers. Very good -- So how does reducing the ways we can communicate help build a relationship? (I'm bad with names so I'm not sure how long you've been around, but take a look at the discussion the last time this was suggested, all of the same arguments still apply) -- Dave Warren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (403) 775-1700 / (888) 300-3480 _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
