Miva did the same thing with their Miva Merchant lists. Same thing happened, the community was essentially lost and all the posts just became veiled advertisements. People give you a hint on how to solve a problem than say "e-mail me for more info." Which really means "hire me."
At 05:06 PM 11/19/2008, you wrote: >"Tim Woodcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Actually, the email delivery mechanism is all I am really concerned about. >>My email was premature, based on the misunderstanding that this would be >>lost in the transition. > >Web-Forum-to-email gateways never work. Or I should say, they never work >*two-way* if you're on the email-side. You get a notice email about every new >post, but you can't reply by hitting reply -- you have to click through, log >in (hope the login redirects you to the message you tried to click through >to), *then* hit reply and, if you can still remember what you were going to >say, say it. It will be read out of context anyway (by everyone else on the >email end) because all semblance of threading is lost in the translation. >Typically the full messages are not in the email, but truncated at some >max-length, forcing those of us trying to play along at home to, once again, >click through, log in, hope and then find the part of the message you didn't >already read to read the rest of it. > >Every mailing list I've been on that has "gone web" like this (all, without >exception, have been corporate customer forums, with communities of customers >who have no say when the transition to web is ordered from on high) has ceased >to be a mailing list, and the customer community that used exist on the list >has evaporated, taking most of the good will toward the company with it. > >But hey, someone's been ordered to "foster the community" and its their job to >appear to do something -- no need to concern yourself with the fact that this >10 year old mailing list community is being disbanded, instead. > >Just get me those TPS report on the double, soldier! > >-dave > >_______________________________________________ >domains-gen mailing list >[email protected] >http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
