On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Dave Land wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Wayne Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Should it move to a newer type of platform?  Facebook or a wiki
>>> maybe? Does the list have a life of its own?  Does it somehow
>>> attract the type of member that will enable it live forever?  Are
>>> monotonous posts and trolls and heated discussions the way it has
>>> found to survive?
>>
>> I hate to pre-announce... but I'm working on installing a blog
>> interface.  I also hope to mirror that blog to another server, as
>> backup.
>
> As long as the email interface persists, please.
>
> I like the fact that it comes to me, rather than my having one more
> place to go to check out the goings-on. Several communities of which
> I've been a part have "threatened" to go all-web (for various reasons)
> and the practically universal response has been "but keep the emails
> coming."

I suspect that's why there's been such little move to go set up web forums 
in one of my RL communities.  I mean, who wants to deal with that when you 
can just sit there and hope that Julia sets up a Yahoo group for it?  :)

        Julia

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