I thought the discussion a year or two ago was that it would be a forum / email list hybrid?
> On Jan 7, 2020, at 12:54 AM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > > I don’t use the book of face so I’m unfamiliar. > > I think wispa should offer every opportunity for us to communicate and not > limit it to just forums. Forums are get for knowledge base/tech support type > stuff because you have a threaded searchable archive. But it’s a > repository of knowledge, not a communications platform for interactive daily > stuff. I check wispa, animal farm and NANOG email lists multiple times a > day. Cambium went to forums which makes sense for a solutions provider so > that they have the searchable database, but I go there maybe monthly to check > for new software or known issues. But I’m not very active in their > community, mostly because I don’t have time to also go login and check a > forum. Email is constantly flowing my way and I interact with it all > throughout the day. > > One way to find out I guess is to gather some data. Find out how many > messages are currently being sent and then look at the data after it’s forums > only. My money is on a steep decline in engagement...I know personally I > won’t be on there. Not because I don’t want to be there, but it’s simply I > don’t have the time to add yet another thing to go log into and check to my > daily life. > > 2 cents > > -Sean > > You can catch me on afmug (animal farm) or nanog > >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:21 PM Daniel White <dwh...@atheral.com> wrote: >> Yes it is going away to a forum. Personally not a fan myself but demand >> seems to be more for forums than the mailing lists. Will also make some of >> the committee work that happens easier so I have been told. >> >> Most of the day to day conversation happens on Facebook anymore... was the >> only reason I ever signed up. Not sure what was so wrong about e-mail :-) >> >> >> Daniel White >> Co-Founder & Managing Director of Operations >> phone: +1 (702) 470-2766 >> direct: +1 (702) 470-2770 >> Ken Hohhof wrote on 1/6/20 19:10: >>> You mean the main members list? Where did you hear it was going away? >>> >>> >>> >>> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com >>> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 7:55 PM >>> To: af@af.afmug.com >>> Subject: [AFMUG] WISPA email list >>> >>> >>> >>> I thought the WISPA email list was going to be shut off. But just now I >>> got an email. Like to delete my folder once it is defunct. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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