[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Personally, I think that all posting access to the list should be > removed. Yes, nobody should be able to post messages to the list. > Instead, posting would be via a blog website, and the blog messages > would then be echoed into various NANOG mailing lists based on > which blog category was being used. Subscribers could then construct > their own personal NANOG list by subscribing to the blog categories > that they are interested in. Threading would work very well since > on a blog, you have to identify the thread before you post.
I don't think that is a very good idea. Blogs tend to be good for the blogging crowd, which is probably similar to the forum crowd, but is different from the mailing list crowd. They may be overlap between the three groups, but you will definitely loose a large number of participants by moving from the mailing list. I run several mailing lists and a couple forums. There is very little over lap in the people that use the forums and the mailing lists, even through the subjects are exactly the same. Likewise, I actually ended up combining a couple mailing lists due to the overlap in content. The stated list topics were different aspects of the same industry, but the actual content seemed to overlap enough that it ended up just being a couple lists that were almost always cross-posted. The NANOG mailing list is a high volume mailing list, but it's not the highest volume, nor the noisiest mailing list that I've participated in. Honestly, I do not think that there really is a need to fix it, as it is not really broken. I do think that it would be a good idea to remoce everyone from the nanog-post list, and let those that wish to post resubscribe. I have a strong feeling that there are a lot less than 10,000 contributers to the mailing list. Mailman also does a good job removing non-functional email addresses, so I imagine that the total number of subscribers is going to drop as old emails are removed automatically. -Sean _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
