Bill, Forgive me, please read on.
Your observation is in fact the primary motivation (in my experience) for moving a mailing list to a message board format. Whenever the mailing list traffic jumps (whether it's from more than one message a week, or one per hour, doesn't matter, it's the jump that gets noticed), people consider going to a different format, one where the higher traffic wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, in my observation, when we've converted that mailing list to the message board, the message board sits and languishes - empty. The solution, in my opinion? Hang in there, with the occasional bursts of high traffic. While this "board vs list" discussion isn't about V6, it's *triggered* by V6 traffic. It's a reasonable discussion. The original person asked a fair question. We've probably answered that question for now... and, in my opinion, we're best off keeping things as they are. Bill, as I said, pardon me. I absolutely *do* respect your suggestion that we move on. Hopefully this here note can serve as a summary/end to the discussion for now. That's my intent. Best Regards, Ed Barnard, in Minnesota On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 10:29, William Hurst wrote: > Enough! Enough! Folks, we are getting an extra portion of e-mail on this > list due to the release of V.6. Is this a really good time to engage in this > discussion of changing the way we deal with the new version? Is this a > really good time to ask the kind people at Millenia to even think about > changing the mailing list to a forum? I'm sure they have more important work > to do. > > Bill Hurst 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
