On 19/08/17 13:12, 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.
With respect, I disagree. This email list is easy enough to manage if you use a decent email client, such as Thunderbird. I read 19 different lists and groups this way, some of them high volume like this one. For each list, I have filters that automatically sort incoming messages into one of 19 folders, leaving just non-list stuff in my default inbox. I then view the lists in 'threaded' mode, and if there's a thread I'm not following, or if I haven't got time to read the list at all that day, I just 'mark thread as read' or 'mark all as read'. A web forum does none of this, and you can only go through the messages as fast as the forum's web server will let you. It's a thoroughly inferior way of working. That said, I wish this list was restricted to Elecraft-related topics only - there's far too much noise IMHO. 73, Richard G4DYA ______________________________________________________________ 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
