Kerry,
My email was a matter of fact one, nothing more. It had nothing to do with the
quality of the posts, members or owner.
Flash Tiger emails show up very quickly because they're on Yahoo servers.
Despite their recent financial troubles, Yahoo has a ton of servers on very fat
pipes.
By contrast, Flashcoders is hosted by a smaller company than Yahoo. For some
reason, this host delays emails by minutes, and sometimes much longer. Moving
to a faster host is probably either too expensive or time consuming (backing up
the archives, etc.). It's not like the delay is that bad, but it does exist.
I sometimes wonder why Flashcoders isn't hosted on Google Groups like AIR-TIGHT
or Yahoo Groups like Flash Tiger. As you well know, Flash Tiger was created
because Flashcoders was down for over a month. Years of the Flashcoders
archives were lost to the ether because of a server failure.
Flashcoders was created during a time when Google/Yahoo groups did not exist.
No slight to Dave, but maintaining your own public email list is a 1.0
mentality. There are great services like Yahoo and Google groups that offer
more features than a self-hosted solution without the cost or headaches.
When was the last time Google groups went down? Google groups has a team of
people available around the clock making sure it's up, so if it goes down, it's
not down for long. With Flashcoders, there's just Dave maintaining it. When it
goes down, you have to hope he's awake and not busy.
So the question is: Why does Dave use this slow hosting company to run the
Flashcoders mailing list when there are better and cheaper (free) alternatives
available?
Cheers,
Steven
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