MOTM

On 2008-11-23 21:26 -0600, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> I'm going to move away from the current yahoo group to a 'self
> contained' forum on the site,

Great !

Instead of getting people's posts delivered to my mailbox
automatically, I'll have to *go* to the site and manually check
every sub-forum !

Instead of having an archive of the list on my disk, it will all
be on a machine somewhere that I can interact with with a latency
measured in seconds !

Instead of threading, I'll have a flat list where you are never
sure which post is a response to which !

Thanks, Paul, this is the way forward. <g>

> The reasons I'm changing are:
> 
> a) I'm NOT the moderator of the Yahoo Group

That is no reason to switch from a mailing list to a web forum.
If you feel you need to control everything, you could switch from
a mailing list to another mailing list of whom you are the
moderator.

> b) I like the fact the php-based forum has categories, and it's
> much easier to find stuff

It also forces you to manually look in each category when what you
are looking for
- does not happen to fit in any of whatever categories the creator
  of the web forum has thought of,
- belongs to more than one of the categories and you made the
  wrong guess,
- has been put in the wrong category.

> c) I'm going to allow anyone to join/post, but trust me I'm
> going to boot folks off if they misbehave

That is no reason to switch from a mailing list to a web forum.
If you feel you need to control everything, you could switch from
a mailing list to another mailing list of whom you are the
moderator.

> d) the Yahoo group is 'hidden' and no other synth forum is.

Couldn't that be fixed by adding a link to it on synthtech.com ?

> I've had several people tell me that joining a forum *before*
> buying was very useful

And joining a list before buying would be less useful ?

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Andr\ufffd Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>