On 4 March 2010 11:09, Nick Reynolds-FM&T <nick.reyno...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: > Surely all these things could be possible on the BBC if we set it up > right...
Why bodge a webboard to do things that a mailing list does already and does well. Every time I've seen a community move from a mailing list to a webboard two things happen:- * A token effort is made to appease the list-fans but it ends up not working well enough to be worthwhile * The community already there fragments, reduces in size or plain disappears. * A new community of people around the webboard grow up thinking that it's the only way to do things - which is a self-perpetuating spiral of death for all future mailing lists because the list-fans were pushed out so there's nobody left to defend how great lists are. * The list-fans get narked because they feel they haven't been listened to, and have been ousted from contributing to something they feel passionate about. Everybody loses. Al. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
