On 18.10.2011 16:40 CE(S)T, Simon Slavin wrote: > The way to settle this is easy: leave the mailing list in place. > Create a web forum. If people abandon the mailing list and start > using the web forum instead, it worked. If people stay with the > mailing list, the mailing list is superior.
I don't think many would want to be in two places that serve the same purpose. You can't make a forum a success if the old way still remains active. A forum will only be successful if people are there to post. And if nobody posts there, nobody will go there. If the mailing list was replaced by a forum, everybody would go to the forum. But you definitely should ask the mailing list users whether they would prefer moving over to a forum, otherwise many might be angry. I would also very much prefer a web-based forum. The whole concept has many advantages over e-mail lists and only few disadvantages. + Easy access, no setup (subscription, rules etc.) + Easily searchable archive with modern and usable UI + Post editing and moderation support (if someone messed it up) -> Allows to correct thread hijacking or wrong subject + Solid threading support (not every MUA can do it well) + Following single threads, with notification + URL to any content, directly from the primary UI + Optional source code syntax highlighting + Less traffic in your mailbox, you only read what you want + No publicly published e-mail address (spam etc.) o More "generation Facebook"-like (is this an advantage at all?) - Web-based UI may be less efficient for some (married with their MUA; also greatly depends on the forum software being used!) Further reading: http://halr9000.com/article/179 Having said that, unfortunately I don't have the time to set it up and manage it, but I'm far too little into this community. I'm just a reader and rare questioner... But you'd need a few moderators to operate a forum anyway. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <nospam.l...@unclassified.de> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
