----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grant Taylor via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org>
> On 12/16/20 10:21 AM, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote: >> Have you considered simply putting up a website and putting phpBB or SMF >> or some other free forum software on it? You can set the forum to be >> private so users have to login to see posts. > > That's a bait and switch to me. > > Web (only) forums do *NOT* offer the same functionality as mailing lists. Oh dear ghod, no. >> Honestly, I see mailing lists as a dying breed (said as I post this to a >> mailing list). > > That's your opinion. One I happen to moderately disagree with. > >> A forum tends to work out better. > > That's also your opinion. One I VEHEMENTLY disagree with. Concur with Grant here. > As someone who subscribes to, reads, and interacts with about 300 > mailing lists and 200 newsgroups, there is no way in REDACTED that I'm > going to go to 500 different forums, many of which behave differently. > > For me, all 500 different lists / newsgroups come to /one/ interface > where I have /complete/ control over. Exactly. Though I'm only on about 8 or so. Showoff. :-) > Pulling from 500 different locations as opposed to 500 different > locations pushing to my single location is a COMPLETELY different usage > model. Well, devils advocate: 500 different mailing lists push to your inbox. :-) > Baiting me with a push and then switching to a pull model is > disingenuous at best. > > Don't even get me started on the UI/UX of things that I don't control. > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die And that's it, right there. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
