Maybe BayLISA needs a new mailing list

Sun Apr 13 10:55:56 PDT 2003

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:01:36PM -0400, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> > I think modern technology has given us better
> > forums for threaded conversations than a single
> > mail list.  between slashcode format boards and
> > zope and this new fangled "net news" thing, we
> > could probably come up with something better.
> > (and it's not like the DC area, which claims to
> > be the heart of the Internet, really innovates
> > anything :).

<68 lines snipped for improved reading> Please do trim your quotes.

> I am already running a message board for a gaming guild, it would be
> an easy thing to set another one up for BayLisa.

IMHO message boards are both awkward and annoying. It takes me an average
of about 5 minutes to do a quick scan of my email, and check interesting
messages. It takes easily three times that length of time, or more to
check through a web-based forum. Overall, they remind me strongly of
a mailing list where absolutely nobody trims their quotes, and the
average reply consists of several messages quoted in their entirety,
with a line-or-two at the bottom. It also functions poorly on text-based
devices.

In other words, awkward, and difficult to gain any benefit from.

cheers!
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