I myself am an administrator of a very popular discussion forum, but still
would hate to see this list head into that direction. Please don't change
the format. The webbased forums seem to be endless sources of flame wars
and off-topic ravings (and I mean true off-topics, not like here where the
so called "off-topics" are usually "on-topics"). The email format minimises
that. It is also much nicer to get *all* the correspondance into your
mailbox instead of having to browse through endless categories and topics
where the discussion is often pretty thin-spread.
Sometimes the new things are not better, they don't make them like they used
to...
J
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From: "Robert Swier"
Subject: [OM] Should this list be a bulletin board?
>
> I've thought of suggesting this a bunch of times, but the burst of
> recent activity and the comments about the sheer number of emails have
> prompted me to go ahead and make the suggestion:
>
> Should this list be a bulletin board? That is, rather than an email
> list, should it be a forum run on a website? This would provide a
> single location online for posting and reading messages. In general, I
> think most people would find this preferable to using email: messages
> would not be lost or slow to post, and good bulletin board software
> makes dealing with large volumes of messages much easier than most
> email programs.
>
> I think http://www.vbulletin.com/ is probably the current leader in
> bulletin board software. An example of their software in use can be
> found at: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/.
>
> It would cost a little money for a domain name and web hosting, and
> the software would cost about $160 or so.
>
> I am certainly willing to help put up a bit of money to help this
> happen and pay for the small ongoing costs. There would be a bit of
> work to get the site up and running, though I imagine it would not be
> too difficult for someone who has done it before. (Which I personally
> have not...)
>
> What do folks think of this?
>
> Robert Swier
> Toronto
>
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