[Diy_efi] Re: comments on reorganizing lists

[John Smith]

I have been a longtime VBulletin forum user and as such am more comfortable 
with the style, but I won't deny that it has definite drawbacks. I can find 
archived information MUCH faster and easier. However, the high site 
visibility and ease of registration tends to attract more people who are 
less interested in contributing useful information. The high site visibility 
will also attract more genuinely interested memmber, though. Some people 
also register at a site(Corral.net, Stangnet.com, SuperHonda.com, etc) just 
to chat on the off-topic forum! Here, the more research-style info gathering 
method tends to discourage those who just want to talk.  Since there would 
be no "lounge" or off-topic area, I suppose this won't be an issue. A 
popular forum might also accumulate 150,000 members while only 1500-2000 are 
active. In the mailing list, I find that some will quote about 7 or 8 
consecutive messages and I have to scroll REALLY far down to get to Message 
2. It requires a lot of extra cutting and pasting to do that on a forum. 
Some do, though, and it's still irritating.

This is not meant to dissuade you from the forum format. I will embrace it 
if you do or stay content with the current mailing list. They are just 
personal observations I have made in the last ~8 years of successes and 
failures on forums.

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>Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:24:04 -0600
>From: "Steve Ravet" <Steve.Ravet at arm.com>
>Subject: [Diy_efi] comments on reorganizing lists
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>I've thought about moving the lists to the forum style format that most
>other internet groups use -- corral.net, thirdgen, etc.  I've been
>opposed to this for some time, liking the email format these lists have
>always used.  So I've put together a list of what I think the pros and
>cons of each are and I'd like to solicit some discussion and opinions on
>whether a switch would be good or bad.