On 17/02/2020 19:03, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote:
Regarding the suggestion for "content/questions/answers/links to put on the
website" - have you ever considered making this mailing list into a forum?
I just like discussion forums a lot better than I do discussion mailing lists.
In my opinion, it's easier to contribute within a forum environment than it is
within a mailing list environment.
From past experience of technical mailing lists changing to forums, I'd
expect participation in a forum to drop dramatically. Mailing list
messages get pushed to members, forums require you to go and look. Even
if new posted messages are emailed to members, then it still requires
the member to click on a link, login etc before replying. From
experience, fewer people will do that. I was in a very active mailing
list with multiple messages daily. It changed to a forum a couple of
years ago. Now, it's unusual for there to be as many as one message a month.
If you can find a system which allows forum replies to be sent by email
(basically a forum and mailing list in parallel), then that works OK,
but they're not that common AFAIAA.
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