[Elecraft] Lists vs BB's vs Forums

[Simon Brown (HB9DRV)]

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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Holidays: April 10 - 21, 2006 as GD4ELI
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Locher W7GH" <rob at idiompress.com>


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.