On Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at 02:21 PM, Paul Ross wrote:
Having said that - when we get to 1,000 members I guess something will have to
be done or the success of the list could implode in on itself and the noise
traffic become too much to handle. I would suggest that you think of switching
to a forum based website much like the excellent
http://forums.australianinfront.com.au/Default.aspx
As soon as lists move to forums, I stop posting, stop reading, and stop helping, as do many others. Web browser-based discussion lists are difficult, slow and tedious at the best of times, which is the complete opposite of mail and news groups, which were *designed especially* for threading, replies and message based discussion.
Everything related to discussion happens faster and easier with a mail client than it does with a browser.
Browser-based discussion has one positive; that being the fact that new subscribers can read old posts and search for topics before posting. This of course can easily be overcome with web-based archives of email lists (which is common anyway).
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
*****************************************************
The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
*****************************************************
