Discuss mailing list

[<vv AT cgs.pw>]

I know some people prefer mailing lists, but
I personally find it difficult to always have
to do a grep on specific things if I want
to fish them out later - noting that the subjects
are rarely well formed. I do a huge amount
of email every day and adding more to that
load is not favourable to my way of computing.

My preference is for forums. I use many of them
all day and it has been part of my daily routine
for many years. One big advantage is that a forum
is always open and up to date. No action is
required by the user. It's always just there.

A really big advantage of forums is the easy
polling. Voting is built right into most forum
software. The current voting software having
been broken with no one able to fix it makes
this a particularly compelling choice.

Regards,
        Ole Juul


On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 00:23:54 -0500
Theo Bleier <me AT theos.space> wrote:

> A few other people and I were talking about possibly
> starting an OpenNIC forum instead of using the mail list.
> 
> Some possible benefits:
> 
> - Being able to look back on conversations easily
> 
> - Being able to organize all domain proposals in an easy
> to browse way
> 
> - Much easier for people who are new to OpenNIC to look
> through
> 
> 
> Some possible caveats:
> 
> - We'll need active moderators to manage the forum
> 
> - Spam could be more of an issue
> 
> - We don't know how many people will switch over from the
> mailing list to use the forum instead.
> 
> What we think about this? Do most people want a forum, or
> are we just going to stay with the mailing list?
> 
> -Theo