On 12/16/20 10:21 AM, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote:
Have you considered simply putting up a website and putting phpBB or SMF or some other free forum software on it? You can set the forum to be private so users have to login to see posts.
That's a bait and switch to me. Web (only) forums do *NOT* offer the same functionality as mailing lists. Perhaps some forums can email posts to members (subscribers).Maybe even some of the forums allow new submissions via email. I don't know.
Note how that's three distinctly different classes of forum applications.
Honestly, I see mailing lists as a dying breed (said as I post this to a mailing list).
That's your opinion. One I happen to moderately disagree with.
A forum tends to work out better.
That's also your opinion. One I VEHEMENTLY disagree with.As someone who subscribes to, reads, and interacts with about 300 mailing lists and 200 newsgroups, there is no way in REDACTED that I'm going to go to 500 different forums, many of which behave differently.
For me, all 500 different lists / newsgroups come to /one/ interface where I have /complete/ control over.
Just because that an airplane and hiking shoes can get you across the country, does not mean that they are even remotely comparable to each other.
It's a pull (users pull content only if they want to receive the content) rather than a push (users are pushed content - if they are subscribed - whether they want to or not).
Pulling from 500 different locations as opposed to 500 different locations pushing to my single location is a COMPLETELY different usage model.
Baiting me with a push and then switching to a pull model is disingenuous at best.
Don't even get me started on the UI/UX of things that I don't control. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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