[Tlhingan-hol] Mailing List vs Forum vs. Social Media

[PICHLMANN Christoph]

I guess a forum could be configured to address most, if not all of these points. But it would lose a lot of flexibility in the process. (Though getting rid of people who need to spam animated stuff is worth a lot.)

Sending mails for new topics should be easy, though. I'd be concerned about being spammed with mails, though.

The main drawback of email is that it's not a universal standard. Half the mails I get from the mailing list are hard to read because the apostrophe is more of a catastrophe...

If the server can understand all mails, De'vIDs idea of the "forum" UI would be a great way to keep the mailing list while having a "forum" of sorts.

Christoph

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> Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 06:54:36 -0600
> From: "Robyn Stewart" <robyn at flyingstart.ca>
> To: <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Mailing List vs Forum vs. Social Media
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> You have to go to a forum and navigate it to remain current with what's
> going on.  As the days lengthen and the snow melts, I have only time to scan
> tlhIngan-Hol messages, and read a few, but at least I get them and can see
> what's going on in the same medium that I am checking anyway.  Depending on
> the  forum software, it would also probably be harder to filter messages on
> content and sender.
> 
> 
> 
> Another thing I prefer about e-mail is that mine is pure text, making it
> impossible for idiots to fill messages with dancing smilies. You could
> probably compromise with a system that automatically posted e-mails to a
> forum or turned forum posts into e-mails, except for the e-mails of anyone
> who used animated emojies: their accounts should simply be deleted.
> 
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> - Qov
>