[Elecraft] Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?

[Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT]

Oh, please don't.

A "push" technology, like E-Mail means that more of us will participate.

Web Based forums are a "pull" -- one has to be dedicated enough to go to 
the forum.  It slows the tempo and reduces participation.

It isn't a magic bullet.  People still post in forum sections off topic.

Before I retired, I ran an ISP and did E-Mail professionally, including 
mail filtering.  The greatest tool I found is called PopFile.

PopFile can, with a minimal amount of work, split out mail by product 
mentioned.  You don't have to figure out what keywords to use, you just 
have to move mail that is mis-classified to the right place.  Takes a 
couple of days worth of mail to train to 90% accuracy or so, and not 
long after before it's near 99%.

73 -- Lynn


On 8/19/2017 5:12 AM, Barry wrote:
> As Elecraft has grown, this email list has gotten quite a bit more traffic.
> It's not easy to manage, especially with the increasing number of products
> all lumped in.
> 
> Why not convert it over to a forum?  Use vBulletin or similar, and every
> product can have its own subcategory, and it would be much easier to pick
> and choose topics of interest.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Barry W2UP
> 
> 
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