OK... OK... First rule about fight club, eh?
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 7:13 PM Jay R. Ashworth via mailop < [email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Grant Taylor via mailop" <[email protected]> > > > 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. > > Oh dear ghod, no. > > >> 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. > > Concur with Grant here. > > > 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. > > Exactly. Though I'm only on about 8 or so. > > Showoff. :-) > > > Pulling from 500 different locations as opposed to 500 different > > locations pushing to my single location is a COMPLETELY different usage > > model. > > Well, devils advocate: 500 different mailing lists push to your inbox. > :-) > > > 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 > > And that's it, right there. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > [email protected] > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 > 1274 > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >
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