> > Ive noticed (compared to last year) a huge drop in traffic > on the NUG > > list. > > Did it all go to the beta list? > No. Some has simply left or shifted. > Joe and Aaron were big posters but Aaron doesn't read the NUG > any more and Joe is working on his own ventures and seems to > post less frequently Some might have moved to the forums but > they never struck me as quite as busy. > Lots of high volume posters just are not present or don't > post often any more.
There are good reasons for encouraging forums (from a corporate perspective) over mailing lists. People can raise a holy stink on a mailing list and its totally out of the control of the vendor - mailing lists just get lapped up by Google and the like, so if someone totally slams your company, its out there for all eternity. At one point, third party vendors making add-ons for REALbasic seemed to be posting regularly - an appropriate venue since this is the place where REALbasic developers (their target audience) would hang out. I wonder how many were warned off against posting offers about their products (like I was) and just became discouraged. There are two key venues to reaching RB developers: this list and the forum. The last several press releases for Valentina for REALbasic I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in order to get posted on the forum) were ignored. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software, Inc Joining Worlds of Information Deploy True Client-Server Database Solutions Royalty Free with Valentina Developer Network http://www.paradigmasoft.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
