I think that is because there are "mailing list" people and there are "message board" people. They aren't interested in switching allegiances. I also work with mailing lists. Comparable message boards often are available. Nowhere near the traffic OR information is shared on the message boards. Even gatewaying those board messages to the mailing lists does not encourage people to go to the boards. They will make an effort instead to directly email the message board poster. Conversely, you can't get many of those board users to subscribe to mailing lists.
This mailing list and associated archives is working. If someone wants to create a message board, try it. Users have done so in other areas. I don't plan to join it but wish people well who do. Elaine If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? Hello Ed On Sunday, September 11, 2005, you wrote > Good points are made, and may be worth discussing. > I have the experience of several reasonably > high traffic mailing lists > dropping to zero when converted to a message > board. It's a different > paradigm. > I suspect the difference is that it's easy to > forget the message board > for a while, whereas the email is right there > for your attention. Email > (for many) is a more common part of the day > than checking one, or a > dozen, message boards. Twenty message boards, but one inbox. > To be sure, I can only speculate on the > *reason* an active message list > dies when it converts to using a message > board. But I have observed that > lists *do* die, in spite of all the good > reasons a message board offers. > This isn't intended to be in favor of one > format or the other. It's > simply an observation I've made over the years. > Best Regards, > Ed Barnard, in Minnesota Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
