Therein lies the age old conundrum. Do you use a "pull" mechanism (a forum) requiring a subscriber to go get the information from the site, or a "push" mechanism where the data shows up in the inbox?
I've been both a forum admin (even a sysop at CompuServe) and an email admin, so I've dealt with both. If someone joins a forum but most of their traffic comes to their inbox, the forum activity will be muted in the continuing flood of emails. I've done this myself when I lose interest in something I subscribe to; change to "forum only" so I have to go to the forum (and of course never do). This is a big change to those accustomed to getting inbox traffic. I guarantee there will be either a falloff or a shift in the dynamic of the community. On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 08:12 Barry <[email protected]> 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:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- --- 73 (or 72 for the QRP folks), Rich Hurd / WC3T DMR ID: 3142737 Northampton County RACES EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
