Like other email lists which convert to a forum, it would change the whole character of the group and interactions. In my mind it would make it less social, less friendly, and fewer people would bother to share their knowledge and experience. I would only visit such a forum if I had my own specific question to ask or problem to solve; I wouldn't think to just cruise it to look for ways to help others.
The answer to the problem you describe is for people to get real email clients with filtering and threading, and to learn how to use them. Even with Thunderbird, which is just an OK email client, I can easily manage to volume on this list. I filter all messages to its own separate mailbox, and they age-off (are deleted) automatically when they're older than about six weeks. On 8/19/17 5:12 AM, Barry wrote: > As Elecraft has grown, this email list has gotten quite a bit more traffic. > It's not easy to manage, especially with the increasing number of products > all lumped in. > > Why not convert it over to a forum? Use vBulletin or similar, and every > product can have its own subcategory, and it would be much easier to pick > and choose topics of interest. > > Thoughts? > > Barry W2UP > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Make-this-email-list-more-manageable-a-forum-instead-tp7633522.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to steve...@effable.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
