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
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