Proposal - the use-revolution list

[Edwin Gore]

Kieth,

It's not strange at all. A mailing list comes to you and demands your attention. A message board sits there lurking 24/7, but unless you bother to check it, it generally won't remind you.

I think the happiest medium would be a message board with the ability subscribe to the board via email. Yahoo groups does something like this - though I otherwise can't stand the way that Yahoo groups works.

My only request would be that if the list get's turned into a board that it be hosted at runrev.com, and the URL nt have anything that identifies it as a messageboard - my employer is weird about message boardds and blocks sites like Prospero, Yahoo Groups, etc. viewing them as "chat" groups.

One advantage I can see to a group is that it would reduce the number of times that 6 of us answer a query, since the mail-lag would be gone. Of course, right now when 6 of us answer a question it's often with 5 completely different, completely valid answers - which really shows off the flexibility of Revolution...

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: Keith Martin <keith at vortex.co.uk>
>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>Sent: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:45:52
>
>><snip>
>>>  The Use Revolution List is a splendid tool and
>have for a long time
>>  > done a great job.
>>
>><snip>
>>  > It would, as I see it, be a good idea to
>change the list to a Forum.
>
>
>>I'm not against the idea of a forum especially for
>following up past issues,
>>but I would not want to lose the list. There are
>still quite a few on dial
>>up access for whom the list provides a quick
>economical way of keeping up
>>with the debate offline.
>
>
>I'm not on dialup, but I have an observation. I
>have found that 
>whenever I've been involved in a group discussion
>that has gone from 
>email list to a supposedly 'easier to use' forum
>I've always stopped 
>using it. However, that's just my own (arguably
>strange) behaviour...
>
>k
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