One mail list I am devoted to occasionally has folks check in about
if the moderator/server person needs help or some cash to help keep
the machines running... it's never a lot, it's never begged or
demanded, it;s just like a neighborhood block party and you chip in
to help make it all work.
I know a moderator/operator puts in WAY too much time to keep
things in order that we, the users, do not see. We do tend to take
that for granted and it shouldn;t be. If that;s the rub here, money
tp keep something running, I'm in if it'll keep this easy and email,
rather than putting a penny in a corporate pocket on a browser-ad-
revenue (seen and unseen) site that's a pain and inelegant.
On Mar 13, 2013, at 5:57 PM, Koralatov wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 20:23, Bob Johnson wrote:
Are these Wordpress forums email lists, or accessible only via web
browser?
They're almost certainly not accessible via email, unless they've also
setup a mail-forum gateway, which is pretty uncommon.
I have to say that I am unlikely to go to a web only forum very
often, I like the old school mailing list way of doing things.
I'm already member of more web fora than I care to remember, and I use
practically none of them. Mailing lists work because I can interact
with the using my email client, which I'm already spending large
amounts
of time using anyway. Having to check a seperate forum means that my
already rare interactions will become zero; I don't have the time or
patience to sign up for Yet Another Forum Account.
For discussion, which is by its nature mostly text-based, a mailing
list
makes a lot more sense. I don't need or want all the extra overhead
that comes along with a forum. Also worth noting that email is
accessibly to nearly everyone, even on relatively antique hardware,
whereas a forum requires a somewhat modern browser to work correctly.
Universal access, regardless of hardware age, is more in keeping with
the low-end philosophy than a forum.
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