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From: Warren Michelsen <war...@mdcclxxvi.us> > I'm not sure where you're coming from. Why can't non-techies use email?!? > How is this mailing list preventing a lot of people from communicating? Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this allegation is unfounded. Non-techies have been using e-mail lists for decades. The most clueless computer users in my college who used AOL for practically everything still somehow managed to subscribe to majordomo lists through pine from a shell prompt. Subscribing to this list is easy compared to that method. Now, of course there is something to be said for "non-techies" choosing not to use e-mail lists due to the abundance and availability of services like Facebook or Google+. Those services are promoted better. But, the claim that the same people signing up to those services, which require an e-mail account in order to sign up for them, couldn't sign up to this list does not appear to be supportable in the slightest. For the reasons others have stated, I prefer e-mail as well. Forums are a pain to navigate compared to e-mail. They simply become too fractured. I also got to see the implementation of one e-mail list that attempted switching over to a web forum while integrating the list into the forum. People could make posts or reply to the list and it would also show up on the forum. While a novel idea at the time, and I unfortunately have no recollection of what the software was named, it was an ugly mess in implementation and was abandoned in fairly short order. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
