Joey deVilla wrote:
> Putting discussions under one roof is meant to simplify things for both
> you and us. The idea is to have just *one* method for discussion,
> reducing the number of places you have to check.
I already have one place I need to check all my mailing lists. It's my
mail program.
If I have to check on the Tucows site for Tucows communication, and the
ABC Company site for ABC communication, etc., etc., you've *increased*
the number of places I have to check.
Abandoning mailing lists means that I probably won't participate in the
new discussions.
There is nothing wrong with the current system that switching to Mailman
will not solve. (Unless, of course, you're trying to cut down on
customer communication, in which case switching to something that does
not arrive in my mailbox is a great way to go about it.)
I suspect that Tucows thinks everyone uses RSS, just because everyone at
Tucows does. Most of us don't use RSS: it's a crappy medium compared to
the richness of e-mail (with e-mail, the content is already right here),
and I'm unlikely to start using it. Nor do I want to set up news
connections to replace every mailing list I'm on, troubleshooting it
each time someone's news server isn't working properly. Nor do I want to
visit twenty Web pages.
Just as an example of what will happen, I looked at the first blog link
Elliot sent to this list, and I simply ignored all the rest. For all I
know, he said something important to me in the other posts, but I simply
don't have the time to be visiting different people's Web pages whenever
they want to tell me something. I can skim the contents of about 30
messages a minute in my e-mail program, which is impossible with any
other equally reliable system (I generally don't put privately run NNTP
servers in the "reliable" category; Tucows may be different, but I doubt
it).
If you go through with this change, I, like most people on this list,
will read and participate less. Hardly the goal you are looking for.
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/
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