Re: Planning to keep the list alive

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:04:37 -0400, Peter Ritchie
<advanced.dotnet.discuss.develop.comPETERRITCHIE.COM> wrote:

>I think the reason people use this list is because it
isn't based on a web
>(HTML) interface.

Actually it is :p It's equally usable via web or email.
Personally I
prefer to use it via the web interface, although it's a
pretty dated
interface now - far less user friendly than it could be.

>There's already numereous web-based sites that cover
>the topics discussed on this list.  If a web-based site
were acceptable to
>the subscribers of this list, they'd already be using
one of the existing
>sites.

Personally I like the near-complete absence of spam here and
the advanced
nature of the discussion. And most importantly, I know of
this list's
existence and don't have unlimited time to search out what
other .NET
forums there might be and to assess how good they are. (Set
against that,
I *really* wish this list had a more up-to-date web
interface)

>If you move this list to another forum that does have a
contemporary web-
>based interfaace, you're going to get a high noise to
signal ratio.

I'm sure it's possible to avoid that, though perhaps only at
a cost of
someone's moderation time and avoiding the most popular
sites.

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