[Hmm, I thought you wanted to take the discussion offlist, but I see you forwarded to the list. Here's a catchup message.]
On 10/29/07, Dan Kegel dank06@kegel.com wrote:
On 10/29/07, Tom Wickline twickline@gmail.com wrote:
My stated goal is to not increase the number of discussion forums / mailing lists, yet still appeal to the "I hate email" generation. I think the google groups front end for the existing mailing list comes pretty close to that...
So your goal is to have a single point for discussion?
No, my goal is simply to not make the situation worse.
[There were more messages after that. Here's the key bit:]
Tom wrote:
Whats so bad about both Google groups and a forum? If you try to pull as many people as you can toward the groups and I do the same for the forum. then if we get 90% of the discussion on two groups its better then what the situation was yesterday... do you agree with that?
I replied: Having one more forum dilutes the community. ...
If you try to pull as many people as you can toward the groups and I do the same for the forum. then if we get 90% of the discussion on two groups its better then what the situation was yesterday... do you agree with that?
Not really.
That said, I can see your vision, and I agree there is some small chance it might succeed and improve the situation.
The real issues are mixed up with a culture war (email vs. forum), which makes the discussion a bit murky. C'est la vie. - Dan