I have to respond; being another "dwindling member" with all-too-much flexibility and presently no access to internet of any sort beyond a land-line. E-mail is hardly (you'll pardon me, I trust) a "deep rut" either, and has proven itself quite user-friendly.
Rather it is the highly commercial ISP's which have mis-used the medium to extract whatever sale-able gains they can from it, and if you imagine they are not eager to do the same or worse to the consumer in forums or other sorts of lists you are deluded. Further, the "collective wisdom" on this list remains accessible in the archives, which have survived in spite of the machinations of the above mentioned Large, Profit Driven ISP's (oh, and don't forget Comcast.) It is the community of dwindling members that have preserved their own copies of the archives and re-published them for us all; catch Yahooey doing that?! Uncle Ben is a fine man, and brilliant; however his mind operates at a much greater speed than, say, 9,999 out of ten thousand. This hardly qualifies as user-friendly for anyone but another Uncle-Ben, and often not for them either. I think you could figure this out - by observation if by no other means. Have mercy and a little caution D&D; your "hard truths" are hard opinions, your examples less than exemplary, your disdain for contrasting thought, evident and contrary. Your positive suggestions seem quite worthwhile, and if you spend more of your efforts on illustrating their benefits I'd be grateful. Malcolm On Thu, 2015-02-19 at 23:57 +1030, Debra & David wrote: > On 19/02/2015 12:38 AM, M.G. Devour wrote: > > > ... whatever platform you choose, I would strongly recommend that > > email notifications remain an optional feature. The ideal system will > > provide multiple communication methods, in order to reach/satisfy the > > largest potential audience. > > The largest potential audience is best reached by a having a user > friendly forum. Not by having a forum that is stuck in a deep rut due > to the inflexibility of a few dwindling members. The growth of > vBulletin forums for even the most esoteric subjects should be a > lesson here. > > (Mike, did you see Uncle Bens comment about why he posted once, then > gave up?). > > > The list serves those who are comfortable with it just fine. I get that. > > It is not, however, doing fully what it was intended to do, which is > > bring the collective wisdom of our community to new people as well as > > foster technical discussions and development. > Sadly the 'collective wisdom' of this community is significantly less than it > was 10 years ago. So much knowledge has passed through this forum, never to > be seen again, that it is truly tragic. A couple of days ago I posted a > message claiming I had discovered how to make crystal clear 200 ppm CS that > was 50% ionic and 50% colloidal with particles smaller than Mesosilver. 10 > years ago this would have brought a storm of questions, skepticism and > ridicule. Today it passed without comment by anyone except Jason. Earlier in > the week Floyd couldn't even get an answer to some pretty simple questions > about his basic system. (My answer never appeared). More time has been spent > discussing why he didnt get an answer than actually answering him. > > > Anyway Mike, good luck with the search for a new format but I think you are > barking up the wrong tree. Despite not having an email digest vBulletin is a > proven success and has all the features you really need (including > pictures!). You already have a license so why not give it a try as a parallel > forum? If you do, my first post on it will be instructions on how to make > that 'Super CS' I mentioned above. > > > David > > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
