Discuss mailing list

[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 21:43:24 +0100, BlockAid DNS wrote:

> I take your point but i'm not sure I agree. In this day and age, most
> people are more than happy to check into facebook at least once a day,
> why not a forum? 
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>   Original Message  
> > From: teamcoltra AT gmail.com
> > Sent: Monday, 7 April 2014 21:11
> > To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
> > Reply To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] Voting System
> > 
> > I find that forums actually are /harder/ for non-tech users and
> > people who are only passively interested in a project. It requires
> > dedication of checking a specific website frequently for updates and
> > remembering that it exists. Email allows even the noobs who don't
> > understand anything else to do the one basic thing that pretty much
> > anyone on the internet knows how to do.
> > 
> > Travis McCrea

Not just noobs.  I do sometimes leave a tab open for facebook, but not
always, I certainly do not leave tabs open for the dozen or so fora that
I am registered on.  But I do get list traffic from all the lists I am
on, and I still receive it when I am away from my desk as well as when I
do not happen to have a browser active.  I can even see an approximation
to the html content some people use, thanks to autoview via elinks.  If
a thread becomes uninteresting, I don't bother to open the contents, but
I can easily keep abreast of what is happening in opennic as on all the
other lists, whereas I only see the activity on the fora (forums if you
are in the US) if I have a problem and take the trouble to log on.

So IMHO, mailing lists are far preferable.

richard


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Richard Lyons