[MLB-WIRELESS] Mailing list Vs Forum?

[Toliman]

It's been 20 minutes....

lets have another discussion on why we should have a mailing list!

My POV is: mailing lists are more personal, but subject to noise.
newsgroups/forums are all noise, no personality. there are only rare
situations that forums stay on-topic, or even relevant and informative. it
also takes a lot more effort & time to break subjects into threads and
expand on points in a forum/NG.

of course, you can hold your own opinion on the latter, but the chances of
getting consistently meaningful information out of any public conversational
medium is close to nil unless it is heavily moderated. and it takes a crack
team of people to do that in any successful way without personalities
getting involved that have their own way of "doing things". there is no
current "best" method for keeping the "noise" factor below noticeable
levels.


As always, your mileage, and experience may vary.

Toliman.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Lanigan" <chooken at m00t.cjb.net>
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Mailing list Vs Forum?


> this is one of those issues that has been done to death...
> mention it again and be killed :P
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Dean" <ferni at shafted.com.au>
> To: "melbwireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 1:38 PM
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Mailing list Vs Forum?
>
>
> > Whats going on with this mailing list? it looks like its freaking out...
> >
> > Is there an advantage to running a mailing list rather than say a web
> based
> > messageboard/forum type thing?
> >
> > IMO a webbased forum's advantages would be
> >
> > - It would reduce the load and bandwidth used on the servers as it
> wouldn't
> > have to send out an e-mail to the (i have no idea how many people are
> > subscribed to this list) XXX people subscribed to the list....
> >
> > - You could track the threads that interesed you, I know i skip through
> some
> > messages, mainly the political cra... stuff... when i know this is
> important
> > but not to me
> >
> > - The different mailing lists you have setup - you could make these
> > sepereate forums and maybe give everyone else read-only access to them
so
> we
> > can see whats going on? etc...
> >
> > - there are more things i could list but they are relating to what i've
> > already said....
> >
> > I'm not sure what the advantages of the mailing-list are over a forum...
> but
> > i'm sure there must be some as there are so many mailing lists
around....
> >
> > Any feedback on this? anyone agree? disagree?
> >
> > ...
> > Ferni
> >
> >
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