Re: please be courteous to the list

[Miko Biffle <biffoz@gmail.com>]

The email list shows activity automatically. I am notified that there's
new discussion. I actually have the body of the discussion right there
in the email. What could be better? Threading occurs if you preserve
the subject headings. 

A forum requires you to go to yet another website. Headings for
"topics" are usually so broad that you have to search for relevent info
manually, one post at a time. Someone has to be there to maintain the
new site. Email lists tend to self-manage unless someone wants to get
more involved.

If this is a re-emergence of the previous discussion I apologize for
wasting bandwidth with this reply, but we've had fairly strong
consensus regarding this subject and find the email list format just
fine. There is a forum-based page though, I just don't ever go
there.  -m

On 3/16/09, Stefan Tiedje <stefantiedje@googlemail.com> wrote:

Sjaak schrieb:

Imo, using email is no longer the most efficient method for a
community like this. I would prefer a forum website, that offers many
more options for everyone. I think Loopers-Delight could benefit and
grow even more if we would move in this direction.

It would loose me, because a forum is 1000 times less efficient than a list. I still look for evidence that there is any advantage of a forum over a list and didn't find any. (Unless I lurk once a year, which wouldn't qualify for being an active member of a community...)

Please explain what is more efficient with a forum? (to build up a single page in a browser it needs at least 10 time longer than my e-mail client, I can't read and answer offline, to name the two deal killers of a forum...)