Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-18 Thread Mark Rousell via mailop
On 18/02/2020 09:37, Paul Smith via mailop wrote: > 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

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-18 Thread Graeme Fowler via mailop
On 17 Feb 2020, at 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? If we as a community can’t make use of a mailing list to sort out interoperability

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-18 Thread John Covici via mailop
I definitely agree with this, I go through my email, but hardly ever log on to forums, its just too much of a pita. Forms are useful, but mailing lists are better unless you get replies to replies ... too to many levels. On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:00:24 -0500, Bjoern Franke via mailop wrote: > > >

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-18 Thread Bjoern Franke via mailop
> > Google Groups ;) > Until Google refuses again to accept your mail ;) ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-18 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 18.02.2020 o godz. 09:37:07 Paul Smith via mailop pisze: > > 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. Google Groups ;) -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-18 Thread Bjoern Franke via mailop
> > 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 >

Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-18 Thread Paul Smith via mailop
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

[mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?

2020-02-17 Thread Scott Mutter via mailop
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