[Diy_efi] comments on reorganizing lists

[Lee M. Lemoine]

For all there is to be said about this, Gmail offers free accounts with
2600+ megs of free storage, and it expands at the rate of something along
the lines of 1/8th a meg a day (150kilobytes approx)  which would be more
than enough space to accomodate all of this traffic.   1) you can search
using googles engine through all of your mail in seconds, 2) it can archive,
sort, and do all of the following, and 3) the people on this list are
intelligent people...  I find sites that make it easy to 'sign up' tend to
have 4000 messages with "my 2003 car has a check engine light, can you help"
-- or potentially other unwanted traffic.

I don't hate forums, and actually maintain two myself, (both running PHPBB)
and must warn about some of the trojans out there.  Just yesterday i had to
update software as there was *something* out there creating hundreds of
accounts an hour and posting adult links throughout the forum at the rate of
5 posts a minute.   (Filled the DB on the server quickly) and slowed
operation.   Just more stuff to contend with that really doesn't happen with
e-mail.

Too bad we can't do an ASCII dump of the daily digest to a server, then
setup a google engine to search all of those.  (maybe we can?)

--Lee

On 2/7/06, Ian Molton <spyro at f2s.com> wrote:
>
> Murray Gill wrote:
> > I personally do not like those forum-style groups one little
> bit.  They're
> > just too clever for their own good.  I see a list as being an on-going
> > discussion between a group of people with a common interest.
> Forum-style
> > does not promote that kind of interaction in my opinion.
>
> I personally _hate_ forums.
>
> They offer no offline reference
> Their threading is poor
> They are _SLOW_
> They (by definition) will have higher bandwidth costs than a list. dont
> kid yourself.
> They have bad threading (if any)
>
> Please dont. just provide web mail archives for searches.
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Sincerely,

Lee M. Lemoine
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'06 Subaru Legacy GT Limited - 250/250 AWD 5EAT
'93 Chevy Cavalier Z24 Convertible - 300/330 FWD 5MT (Mclaren Turbo!)
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