On Jan 16, 2005, at 09:40 PM, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the migration,
> you
> can let us know by:
>
> - Posting a message to the discuss-list mailing list
Here are my concerns, in no particular order:
1.) I don't want to have to go use some third application to read my
OpenSRS discuss-list messages. I already have a mail program, I have no
desire to now also fire up an NNTP reader or a web browser to get
messages which were quite happily landing in my inbox. Not all of us
use BloatWare mail applications that try to speak every protocol on the
face of the planet.
2.) This gives the ability for OpenSRS to simply say "Oh, I wish that
topic had never been broached" and delete the entire thread "poof" ...
gone, into the ether, with no copies remaining except for whatever
local caches exist on various peoples' workstations. With e-mail, there
is a guarantee that *everyone* has a copy, readily available until they
delete it themselves.
I can honestly say that if the means by which I have to get my
discuss-list information changes to a web forum or the use of an NNTP
reader, that I will cease to be a domain-reseller for Tucows. I barely
have time to follow the list when it's in my inbox, let alone going
through extra effort to follow it using external methods.
By and large, I think that the two "why this is happening" reasons are
utter crap. Spam and viruses are easily mitigated via restrictions on
attachment-types and limiting who can post to the list, and "threading"
is pretty much built into every mail application made in the last five
years. So if THOSE are the reasons you're proposing as the "why", then
someone seriously needs to come up with a better cover story.
Others' mileage may vary, obviously.
D
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