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Originally posted by andrew:
**OK folks, I'm convinced there are enough people -- but do you think a mailing list is better than the web board, or do they server two different purposes?
What do you think said mailing list should be named if it did exist?**
I don't know that the two necessarily must serve different purposes, but they definitely could serve different people. I am not an active member of the boards, but I would hope to participate a good deal on a mailing list. That just has to do with my dial-up connection, my inability to stay online for the right duration of time, and the frustration of waiting for pages to load as I search for a topic that offered some info I need (yes, I've tried the search function). But I see a different way for people to read the same kind of info. In fact, the web-board scripts you use probably aren't THAT customizeable, but if you could make it possible for members to subscribe to these boards (and in digest-mode, please : ) ) to receive messages by email and post through email as well, why, that would be all I'm asking for in a mailing list. So, yeah, I view both as pretty much two mediums for the same stuff.
But if a difference must be established, I would suggest that the list be made for those who are actually using Coldstone to get something done. I hesitate to suggest registered users only, but I imagine registered users will be about the only ones interested in subscribing to a list that's more a gathering of developers than general questions about the product.
As for the name? Coldstone-Dev or something of the like would be fine. Makes no difference to me.
Oh, and someone asked me my problems with Yahoo. Yahoo (formerly egroups) has some nice features. But the ads are getting progressively worse in kb and in placement. I've had problems with managing my lists both as a subscriber (in digest mode as well as in individual email mode), and as a list-owner. There are weird down-times throughout the week so about every other time I've wanted to make some changes to my lists, I've gotten error messages. But the main reason is probably autonomy, which is more a personal preference than anything. I've had an anouncement list for years to promote my own writing. It was on listbot which was acquired by Microsoft, and I eventually moved it to egroups where it was acquired by Yahoo. I finally moved to manage the list offline at the end of last year.
Alex.
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