On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:45 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > I used to run a forum that was pretty active. Eventually, we all added each other as friends on Facebook and we communicate there. For a while we had a group on FB, but even that is gone now. Not suggesting that's what we do (wouldn't work for this lot anyway). Just pointing out that web forums seem to be a dying breed. > > >
