For what it's worth, I'm pretty much in favour of mailing lists, and in my ever so humble opinion I'm not a dinosaur, I'm quite the hipster. For me the main argument is as stated - being able to track lots of lists simultaneously. GMail does this excellently - I have a special account which I only use for mailing lists, all mail gets tagged when it comes in and optionally archived immediately. It basically enables me to turn a mailing list into a forum, whereas the opposite is almost never possible.
As for being a means to achieve more traffic - maybe, I'm not sure. I'd hate to see the traffic here split between a forum and the list, because then I'd have to check both, and realistically it would greatly reduce my chances of seeing any particular message. Cheers, Colin
