I also prefer bulletin board style myself-agree with the 'community' feeling..but then without this list I wouldn't have joined this one
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 September 2006 20:28 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG] bbs? 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 > > > > > > > -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- > Ben Grossman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: drehleierguy > http://www.macrophone.org > http://www.posttraditional.ca > http://www.myspace.com/bengrossman > http://www.myspace.com/duooconnorgrossman > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.2/441 - Release Date: 07/09/2006
