On Sunday, September 10, 2017 8:31:00 PM PDT Lin Holcomb wrote:
Josh as the USENET discussion is part of this thread let me say that this is the last email list that I am a member of the email list is a dinosaur just as much as USENET.
And this is pure bull.
Either a web based discussion forum, but those are so prone to hacking patches are a weekly to daily issue.
I refuse to bounce around from page to page for the dozens and dozens of groups I participate in and read.
Facebook provides a clean simple way to discuss.
And I don't and won't do Facebook either. It's may be simple but that's it. It's not a good place or way to discuss complex subjects.
Change is good if you have other suggestions please feel free to point them out
I don't mind change, but change for bad reasons isn't good.
, but email list definitely does not draw in new users and does not provide a clean discussion with threads and sub threads.
Then you're using the wrong email program. All the lists I subscribe to (and the web based groups that allow me to fetch via email) are sorted into folders and discussions are threaded. I can participate or ignore as I choose in far less time than mucking on Facebook.
I do G+ and it's at least relatively sane, but it also is no replacement for mail lists.