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

[Walter Underwood]

I’m not a big fan of forums, even though I maintained the one used by 5000 engineers at Hewlett-Packard. I don’t mind the e-mail volume at all. On the other hand, I was getting a thousand e-mails a week thirty years ago. The SOTA reflector is a list/forum hybrid where you need to log into the forum to post. It has some advantages, but it isn’t my favorite.

One old mailing list trick is to have separate lists for announcements and for discussion. People who want less traffic could keep up to date by following the announce list.

elecraft-announce would be low-volume and could only be posted to by Elecraft personnel. It would have announcements of new products, special deals, firmware releases, field tester requests, and so on. It might also include information about hamfests Elecraft will attend, requests for people to staff the booth (replies off list enforced), etc.

elecraft-discuss would be like the current list. Elecraft could decide whether to also send announcements to this list. I would be perfectly happy to subscribe to both lists in order to get announcements and discussion.

The IETF uses this convention for mailing lists. You can read more here: https://www.ietf.org/list/ <https://www.ietf.org/list/>

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> On Aug 19, 2017, at 9:32 AM, Dauer, Edward <edauer at law.du.edu> wrote:
> 
> I agree with Grant and others.  There are advantages to a Forum, but I would regret losing the open-textured character of a reflector.  I think of it as if it were an OTA net among friends and colleagues and potential friends and colleagues with common interests.  Not always very efficient, but a conversational nexus with its own advantages.  
> 
> If I need something very specific there’s always the topical archives.  Or a question to the goup.
> 
> Ted, KN1CBR
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