various people:
Forum idea good because:
Better seperation of topics in all sorts of ways
People can chat without causing the whole group too much traffic
Good search facilities
Scales up to more users/posts better than a single list
User interface & other features could be better than yahoo (or could
be worse)
Forum idea bad because:
Some people like email and dont like forums (eg wont remember to go to
forums)
Some people dont want topics to split
Some people
Not everyone will rush to use the new forum and so this list may
continue to be main hub of communication and the forum remains barren
Someone has to host it/set it up (probably not a problem)
Personally I favour forums but I wouldnt even try to convince peopel
to switch unless the forum system used offered the ability for people
to receive messages by email in an intuitive way, and the thing
generally looked good and offered people feature incentives to switch,
otherwise it may fail or split the community.
Cheers
Steve of Elbows
--- In [email protected], "Andreas Haugstrup"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:54:16 +0200, Stephanie Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, some possible sub-groups that could evolve out of this one:
>
> And before someone goes out and creates all these groups keep these
things
> in mind.
>
> - The forum vs. e-mail discussion has surfaced more than once. If
you
> haven't been around that long it would be helpful to go back and
read the
> old threads.
> - One split-off happened with the videoblogging_content group. The
result
> was that many messages were cross posted between the two lists. What
> precautions do you propose so this won't happen again?
>
> - Andreas
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