Hello.
I vote for the bbs. I prefer to keep lists away from the inbox of my email.
It is so easy to click a bookmark in the browser to see if there are any relevant new messages in the bbs.
Thanks Ben for the work you've done.
Esa M.
Finland
Ben Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti:
Dear hurdy gurdy gals and guys,
I hope that this note finds you all well.
Like, perhaps many of you, I have had an on-again-off-again
relationship with this email list. I have found myself at times,
enjoying it, cursing it, laughing at (er, it mean with) it, rolling
my eyes at it, and often un-subscribing from it because it just
drives me nuts. Perhaps you have some of these symptoms:
- small floods of messages regarding things in which you have no
interest whatsoever?
- frequent urges to scream at the messages asking questions that
have been asked and answered before? Sometimes MANY times before?
(i.e. no archive and search feature)
- the wish to have messages better organised by subject/thread/
category? (i.e. if you are only interested in historical stuff, you
can look at that only. Or if you have no interest in the latest
plywood contraption from Ebay, you can avoid that)
- the desire to view and respond to messages how and when you want to
rather than have them come tumbling into your inbox willy-nilly? And
not to have to set filters etc. so that you don't get HG-list
messages filling up your Blackberry or whatever when you're on the road?
- etc. etc.
My I propose that we move to a bulletin board system instead of an
email list? I'm sure that you are all familiar with BBSs, so you
have an idea of what I'm proposing. For those who still really want
email, they can chose to have all messages on a certain thread
forwarded to the address that they specify in the registration.
Of course I would like to know what you all think of this idea - I
would love to do a poll (something that is simple on a BBS) rather
than have you all write into the email list (further clogging up our
in-boxes!). I think that this would only really work if everyone on
the list migrated to the BBS. It would be a shame to have a BBS that
puttered out for lack of participation as it would be a shame for the
current BBS.
If you want to have a look at what I have in mind, I've set one up
for us (a start anyway) at http://www.macrophone.org/hg
If you like what you see, please go ahead and register. I've made a
guess as to how is should be set up, but I welcome your input and
suggestions.
Thanks and best regards,
ben
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