Dragaera

Mailing list vs. forum (was: warning to newbies)

Tue Feb 10 13:26:12 PST 2004

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Steve Simmons wrote:

@> > rec.arts.sf.written.steven-brust, perhaps?
@> >
@> > Although this is certainly a busy list, not entirely sure there is
@> > enough interest to justify newsgroup creation.  Worth a poll for
@> > opinions though.
@>
@> One of the classic criteria for creating a newsgroup was the presence
@> of an active list.  I for one would prefer a netnews version.

I think we should move this list to Livejournal. Then we could all post
with crazy cat icons and bitch about our days and fill out quizzes to
find out which Brust character we are!

Um, anyway.

While the idea of filtering out everyone who doesn't know how to use NNTP
has a certain attraction, I'd suggest we keep this as a mailing list,
since even technically clueless people can like Fantasy novels. On the
other hand, making it a web forum would be even better for less technical
people, but would make it more cumbersome for people to participate (e.g.
one must visit a specific site and fill in extra fields, rather than just
hitting a reply-to-all from the e-mail program they're already running
anyway).