Donald Becker wrote:
The bottom line is that we are considering a message board format to
replace the mailing list. It would have required logins to
post, and retroactive moderation to delete advertising and trolls.
Any opinions?
I'd really not see it go that way. I'm on a couple dozen mailing lists
all sorted to their own folders. I have one mail client I start up and
shows me all the incoming mail I have in each folder. During the day,
all I have to do is glance at thunderbird, and I know if there are
messages to read or not. If it were a message board, it would require
an intentional effort to go to that board to read the messages. I
wouldn't read them as much, and would likely forget to keep going back
after a couple days. I imagine there are others in the same boat, which
would cause readership to shrink quite a bit.
There's something to be said for the laziness of having the message come
to me. Especially since I have to have thunderbird open for work anyways.
If the official beowulf.org discussion group moved to a web forum, I for
one would be interested in joining (and possibly starting) an alternate
forum that is email based. However, I'd much prefer to just have this
list stay as it is.
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