As someone on the other end of things - maintaining a software program with
many users - I find a BBS to be far superior. It's much easier for me to
stay abreast of what's happening, it doesn't matter where I am: the BBS is
there for use with a database which gets backed up every night and copied
over to a second web machine. With just the Yahoo! mailing list I was losing
the plot.
But when I am not the developer of the product I prefer a list like this.
My ideal would be email integration with the BBS - I use phpbb and will not
change to anything else as I am otherwise happy with what it offers.
For project tracking I use Gemini.
Simon Brown
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Locher W7GH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'll second Andrea's remarks on mail lists being far superior to web
forums. I would say that if the mailing list were to be replaced with
anything, it should be a usenet group. But then the usenet group would
need to be moderated to avoid being completely overrun by spam -- so I
still think the mailing list is the best.
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