Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?
On 18/02/2020 09:37, Paul Smith via mailop wrote: > From past experience of technical mailing lists changing to forums, > I'd expect participation in a forum to drop dramatically. Mailing list > messages get pushed to members, forums require you to go and look. > Even if new posted messages are emailed to members, then it still > requires the member to click on a link, login etc before replying. > From experience, fewer people will do that. I was in a very active > mailing list with multiple messages daily. It changed to a forum a > couple of years ago. Now, it's unusual for there to be as many as one > message a month. This. This works as a mail list. Let's not fix what ain't broke. -- Mark Rousell ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?
On 17 Feb 2020, at 19:03, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote: > Regarding the suggestion for "content/questions/answers/links to put on the > website" - have you ever considered making this mailing list into a forum? If we as a community can’t make use of a mailing list to sort out interoperability problems, then as a community we have failed :) Graeme ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?
I definitely agree with this, I go through my email, but hardly ever log on to forums, its just too much of a pita. Forms are useful, but mailing lists are better unless you get replies to replies ... too to many levels. On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 05:00:24 -0500, Bjoern Franke via mailop wrote: > > > > > From past experience of technical mailing lists changing to forums, I'd > > expect participation in a forum to drop dramatically. Mailing list > > messages get pushed to members, forums require you to go and look. Even > > if new posted messages are emailed to members, then it still requires > > the member to click on a link, login etc before replying. From > > experience, fewer people will do that. I was in a very active mailing > > list with multiple messages daily. It changed to a forum a couple of > > years ago. Now, it's unusual for there to be as many as one message a month. > > This is the same experience I had with a community which tried to switch > to a Discourse forum. Discourse is even capable of sending mails with > List-ID / References in the header, but still has some issues. > > And mailinglist mails can be read even by a client on a mobile phone and > have only SMTP/IMAP traffic and no overhead for loading several stuff > from CDNs etc. > > Regards > Bjoern > > ___ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?
> > Google Groups ;) > Until Google refuses again to accept your mail ;) ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?
Dnia 18.02.2020 o godz. 09:37:07 Paul Smith via mailop pisze: > > If you can find a system which allows forum replies to be sent by > email (basically a forum and mailing list in parallel), then that > works OK, but they're not that common AFAIAA. Google Groups ;) -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?
> > From past experience of technical mailing lists changing to forums, I'd > expect participation in a forum to drop dramatically. Mailing list > messages get pushed to members, forums require you to go and look. Even > if new posted messages are emailed to members, then it still requires > the member to click on a link, login etc before replying. From > experience, fewer people will do that. I was in a very active mailing > list with multiple messages daily. It changed to a forum a couple of > years ago. Now, it's unusual for there to be as many as one message a month. This is the same experience I had with a community which tried to switch to a Discourse forum. Discourse is even capable of sending mails with List-ID / References in the header, but still has some issues. And mailinglist mails can be read even by a client on a mobile phone and have only SMTP/IMAP traffic and no overhead for loading several stuff from CDNs etc. Regards Bjoern ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] Suggestions for mailops.org website - forum?
On 17/02/2020 19:03, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote: Regarding the suggestion for "content/questions/answers/links to put on the website" - have you ever considered making this mailing list into a forum? I just like discussion forums a lot better than I do discussion mailing lists. In my opinion, it's easier to contribute within a forum environment than it is within a mailing list environment. From past experience of technical mailing lists changing to forums, I'd expect participation in a forum to drop dramatically. Mailing list messages get pushed to members, forums require you to go and look. Even if new posted messages are emailed to members, then it still requires the member to click on a link, login etc before replying. From experience, fewer people will do that. I was in a very active mailing list with multiple messages daily. It changed to a forum a couple of years ago. Now, it's unusual for there to be as many as one message a month. If you can find a system which allows forum replies to be sent by email (basically a forum and mailing list in parallel), then that works OK, but they're not that common AFAIAA. -- Paul Smith Computer Services Tel: 01484 855800 Vat No: GB 685 6987 53 Sign up for news & updates at http://www.pscs.co.uk/go/subscribe ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
