Yer top-posting, and worse, you're not trimming! begin quoting Druppy as of Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:23:25AM -0700: > I don't really care to debate to be honest, the method of delivery > isn't important to me. But there was a thread a while back asking > what we could do to get more new people involved, and I am proposing > that not using a mailing list and using a web forum would be a good > place to start. I bet a lot of people don't subscribe / immediately > unsubscribe when they see the volume of emails on this list.
Switching to a web-forum would likely be a quick way to force me out; I've never seen a web-forum that's been worth the effort. Dealing with the traffic is a valid issue, and going over to a web-forum would likely remove *my* contribution to the problem, so it may be a general-purpose win. > I would propose that having a forum system would allow for more new- > user interaction / easier introductions / etc. There are lots of I don't see that, so I don't agree. Please convince me! > different forum solutions, many of which allow user definable > layouts / fonts / colors / etc. You're forgetting the single most important feature: killfiles. > And in today's world it's a much more > accepted method of mass communication. Isn't that what twitter is all about? If you're going to chase the shiny 'cuz it's new, you gotta chase the newest shiny! Besides, we have a web-site. How's that doing? Since the wikispam attack that forced us to switch to something prettier, I've hardly used it. > And most of them do have the > "email me this thread as it updates" so you can just subscribe to the > ones you really care about. > > Email lists are so very 1990 ;) Worse than that. Usenet is an improvement on email lists... and Usenet is OLD. [chop] -- Trim! Trim! Trim! Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
