On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:05:15PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Push vs Pull media
Mailing lists serve me well. I lurk on over 50 mailing lists. I would not be able to scan through them all of them quickly if the medium were web-based. There is too much latency to get content. > Back in 2000 we were smaller and less active, however today I > think we may be ready for a web forum. Most people only use luau in read-only mode. There are only a few messages posted to luau each day. Would there really be more participation if the discussions were web-based? > Unfortunately, if such a thing were to happen, it would need > to be a complete conversion because you cannot expect people > to visit both a mailing list and web forum. The community > would suffer if we try to maintain both. This means that > the discussion mailing list would ultimately need to be > discontinued. Although I personally prefer mailing lists, having both in the long term would be a disservice to the community. > I propose that along with the launch of the new HOSEF/MPLUG > website, we as a community TEST a web board. Not everyone would > prefer it, but I believe it would ultimately be better for us > as a community. I ask that people have an open mind and give it > a good try. This might be the catalyst to get the 250+ subscribers to luau to participate more. Or, the forums will run empty because there is not much to discuss. > Comments? Flames? =) I guess this would mean no more HTML-ized E-mail. One technical concern is hosting. Will HOSEF/luau always have the blessing from UH? A mailing list is very light weight compared to a web-based forum. That will greatly affect hosting options in the future. -Vince
