[GZG] [OT] I'm back

Hey all!

It's been a few years but I'm back on the list! Infact, I have a new order
coming from Jon soon I hope ;-)

Just a quick question, anyone thought of moving the list to a forum setup
instead? I just ask since I host them and would be willing to put it
together. That and I remember how filled my email box always was ;-)

> Hey all!

Hiya!

> It's been a few years but I'm back on the list! Infact, I have a new

Welcome back.

> Just a quick question, anyone thought of moving the list to a forum

I'm fairly certain that if the list moved to a forum setting, I would probably
almost never see it...

I *like* seeing the GZG emails in my mailbox....

:)

Adrian wrote on 01/04/2006 06:46:13 PM:

> >Hey all!

Inspite of the no 'me too' prohibition, welcome back!

> >Just a quick question, anyone thought of moving the list to a forum

Some of us tried something like a forum; funny, I can't even recall the term
for the dingus. We had a good tech person, but the game
driver/editor
kept being replaced by someone even more clueless than the predecessor, and I
should know, as the last one was me.

Ok, I like emails, but I even like more the fact Berkerley is less interested
in my particulars than Yahoo!, and I'm on two groups there without ever
signing up.

Yes, yes, YMMV.

The_Beast

> Some of us tried something like a forum; funny, I can't even recall

Interesting. I've got to admit I've always prefered forums over email lists.
It's all a lot more clean and doesn't clutter up your inbox. Also easier to
search through the archives to see if the info is already there.

Ah well, if people wouldn't use it no point making one.

> Jaime Tiampo wrote:
Also
> easier to search through the archives to see if the info is already

I think there's a place for both. I so rarely get a chance to actually look at
this stuff that having it all in email form means I can quickly catch up as
opposed to going through page upon page of unread forum posts. On the other
hand, bulletin board systems provide their own archiving setup, so, once I do
find something I'm interested in, I'm not trying to trace five different
threads all with the same subject line.

I think if you want to do it, I think people would go try it out and see if it
'jells.' I'd certainly be interested, as I delude myself to believe I'm ever
going to have time to play FT again on a regular
basis.  (8-)

JGH

> Jaime Tiampo wrote:
Also
> easier to search through the archives to see if the info is already

Well, we do have an archive somewhere, and it is searchable.

And the first thing I do when subscribing to a mailing list is
configuring my mail program (linux: mutt+procmail) to park all the
mailing list stuff into a separate folder so my inbox isn't cluttered.

The main problem with forums that I have is that there are too many of
them:-)

> Jaime Tiempo wrote:

> Just a quick question, anyone thought of moving the list to a forum

There are several of GZG forums scattered throughout the web, including a
whole bunch of Yahoogroups (which can be read both as mailing lists and as
on-line forums). None of them has even one-third as much traffic as this

"pure" mailing list, though <shrug>

Regards,

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:27:45 +0100, Frits Kuijlman writes:
Also
> easier to search through the archives to see if the info is already

The mailman archives are actually searchable at this point, although the index
tends to only get updated once a week or so.

> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:05:30 -0800 (PST), "Jaime Tiampo" writes:
Also
> easier to search through the archives to see if the info is already

Forums vs. email is a normal debate that comes up every 6-12 months on
most mailing lists I'm on.  Converting isn't hard - go to yahoogroups
or many of us can set up some kind of forum software.

If there was to be a vote though, I keep my vote for getting things via
email.  I find it easier to keep track of read/unread messages, and
email acts as an aggregator for me, putting the things I care about all in one
place. opposed to forums where I have to manually go to a bunch of different
links just to see if there's something new.

I like the email. I've been on the list since Bolton, not ready to change.

Mike

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On 1/5/06, gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
> <gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:05:30 -0800 (PST)

> Interesting. I've got to admit I've always prefered forums over email

I preferred Usenet over both, but spammers and migration to the web have
pretty much killed Usenet.

I'm not crazy about web forums. It's a pain saving someone's post that you
want to keep. The high volume forums (like rpg.net) lose messages because of
the "not on the first page" syndrome: a post gets knocked off the first page
because of high traffic and people being lazy clods
they don't go past the first couple of pages. An e-mail message can
get swamped, too, but at least the user has to select the message to be
deleted.

I don't participate on here much anymore (check the archives back in the last
years of the 90s and you'll see I was once much more active) but I still skim
the digest headings. I tend to focus on single threads on web forums and
forget to check for new posts for months on end.

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very active - but now lurk a lot more (no time to be
active) - but still love the whole space combat scene

If you use gmail - then this list is just like a forum and a mailing -
its
just great and every post indexed by the google search engine - bliss

if anyone wants a gmail invite please email me OFF LIST