Parks White <[email protected]> writes
Perhaps it is time for this mailing list to join the 21st Century and
evolve in a web-based forum or blog with threads on topics that allow
newbies to avoid spoilers and ...Could be hosted in the cloud at no
cost..... Just a thought...
Been there, seen it, done it !
Crydee had a forum, which is now closed, which had a complex level of
authorities to limit access to avoid spoilers. It didn't work ! You need
moderators, to deal with the issues, and it has a greater risk of
hacking.
There was an USENET group, which is now as good as dead, Crydee's forum
was closed due to lack of interest, The Hall of Worlds forum, was dying,
may be dead or surviving. These days Forums in general are dying in many
areas. People want instant gratification, via text or social networking.
You forget. The mailing list is an off-line system. A forum is an online
system.
For those not understanding.
In Off-line mode. You hit the mail server, get your email, and
disconnect from the Internet. Maybe 1 minute total
In Online mode, you sit at a keyboard waiting for each webpage to be
delivered, and refreshed. Each page potentially consuming the same
bandwidth as all the text message combined, You could spend hours....
--
John
The Official Raymond E Feist Website
http://www.crydee.com/
Books to read, and shelves to fill,
Ray's great books, just fit the bill.
