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I think I am a lil late to contribute here but I would like to say that I agree with Justin. Forums are a good tool for organising topics but for some who are too busy to take the trouble to log into forums and check the posts, it is a turn off.
I would prefer for the list to remain as it is now. At least I can take my time to read the mails when I have the time to do it.
The only downside is that mailing list is that it is hard to organise it to specific folders. I have a folder for WSG but 90% of the mail ended up in my inbox instead because the "from field" is actually using the sender's name.
About having different categories of topics, I would go for it only if I am sure that those mails would go to the folders I specify..If not, it would be too confusing for me and I would not know where to start reading from.
Lastly I want to say that I love WSG! People are helpful and although it is not a huge list, it doesn't matter. What matters most is the culture/attitude behind the list members.
That is the only thing that makes me stay in the list and not to be shy/afraid to show my dumb side when it comes to issue I am unsure of.
In fact, I would say that WSG has the best attitude so far compared to other lists. To Russ and Peter...you guys did a great job in maintaining the spirit!
With Regards
Jaime Wong
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-------Original Message-------
Date: 03/10/04 11:59:26
Subject: Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list
On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 02:21 PM, Paul Ross wrote:
> Having said that - when we get to 1,000 members I guess something will
> have to
> be done or the success of the list could implode in on itself and the
> noise
> traffic become too much to handle. I would suggest that you think of
> switching
> to a forum based website much like the excellent
As soon as lists move to forums, I stop posting, stop reading, and stop
helping, as do many others. Web browser-based discussion lists are
difficult, slow and tedious at the best of times, which is the complete
opposite of mail and news groups, which were *designed especially* for
threading, replies and message based discussion.
Everything related to discussion happens faster and easier with a mail
client than it does with a browser.
Browser-based discussion has one positive; that being the fact that new
subscribers can read old posts and search for topics before posting.
This of course can easily be overcome with web-based archives of email
lists (which is common anyway).
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Justin French
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