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

[Michael Babineau]

Drew et al : 

The only solution that I can think of that comes close to meeting the criteria you mentioned is perhaps Groups.IO.  Many Ham Radio related Yahoo Groups have migrated to Groups.IO (including one that I own) and
it has a number of options including email, email digest as well as web-only and it has threading based on topic to make facilitate following a conversation.  
One nice feature is the ability to create sub-groups that members of the main group may choose to subscribe to, which is great for reducing the load on a busy group that may have 
discussions on topics that not all members are interested in. Also it has Wiki cababilites as well as storage for photos and files and the usual calendar with notification options and polling as well. 
The plus over Yahoo is that their search capabilty actually works properly ! 

Migration from Yahoo to Groups.IO is painless but I suspect that it would take a fair bit of work to migrate from a list-server such as this group over to Groups.IO and I am not sure you could preserve the 
existing postiing history very easily, which is a downside. 

Cheers

Michaell VE3WMB  

>From: Drew AF2Z <pubx1 at af2z.net <mailto:pubx1 at af2z.net>>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Make this email list more manageable - a forum instead?
>Date: August 21, 2017 at 3:37:38 PM GMT-4
>To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net <mailto:elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>Reply-To: pubx1 at af2z.net <mailto:pubx1 at af2z.net>


>Main difference to me is that with mail reader software I can use keyboard exclusively. Web forums require mouse pointing/scrolling/clicking which gets on my nerves very quickly. But for some people the mouse is easier.

>The only solution is a good software solution that combines listserv with forum. This still does not exist. In the meantime there's no point trying to convince people that their particular preference must be wrong.


>73,
>Drew
>AF2Z