Mailing lists
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
Mailing lists are hugely useful. In one of the series of "Going Solo" articles I'm currently, I talk about mailing lists and how you can use them to keep in touch with customers. They are a fantastic way to talk to people who are already interested in your services and tell them about other services you can offer.
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Mailing lists are hugely useful. In one of the series of "Going Solo" articles I'm currently, I talk about mailing lists and how you can use them to keep in touch with customers. They are a fantastic way to talk to people who are already interested in your services and tell them about other services you can offer.
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Ah yes, in that sense I get the point, then it's just an address book and you broadcast a message. But on source forge they seem to use it for discussions too, and that's where I think I'm missing the point or perhaps how things grew historically.
Wout
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
No, I am a member of a mailing list community and it is great. It is small enough to not generate millions of emails a day but there is a consistent conversation. It has downsides but there are a lot of upsides too.
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
Mailing lists are good because you can have local storage. You kinda grow a custom library of (often very good) documentation. And its a good bit easier to search with desktop search, spotlight, beagle or similar
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
wout de zeeuw wrote:
Are mailing lists something outdated?
No. YahooGroups and GoogleGroups offer something like Digest Mode wherein everyday you get a summary of the conversations to your email.
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Are mailing lists something outdated? Whenever I run into one (like source forge uses them), I just think they're inconvenient compared to forums. Are there any pros to mailing lists that I'm not aware of?
Wout
Everyone uses email here at work. If you get a salary, you get an email address and you can use the mailing list system. Mailing lists are the only way to reach everyone. RSS is still a minority channel here as are forums, blogs and intranets. What I do object to is the notion that the content in mailing lists is somehow bound to the mailing list format. It is just a medium, the content should be disconnected. A good mailing list system should expose via RSS, via an intranet page and via a forum view. The forum view should let those who want to post via a browser interface do so and let those subscribed via email to then receive that reply and reply themselves. If someone wants to interact solely through email then they should be able to do so. If someone wants to do it all through the forum view then they should be able to. Funnily enough all the projects online that I keep tabs on (Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Apache, Mozilla, jQuery etc.) all still use mailing lists. They have web interfaces but the bulk of discussion still happens through the mailing list (and bizarrely, IRC.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
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Everyone uses email here at work. If you get a salary, you get an email address and you can use the mailing list system. Mailing lists are the only way to reach everyone. RSS is still a minority channel here as are forums, blogs and intranets. What I do object to is the notion that the content in mailing lists is somehow bound to the mailing list format. It is just a medium, the content should be disconnected. A good mailing list system should expose via RSS, via an intranet page and via a forum view. The forum view should let those who want to post via a browser interface do so and let those subscribed via email to then receive that reply and reply themselves. If someone wants to interact solely through email then they should be able to do so. If someone wants to do it all through the forum view then they should be able to. Funnily enough all the projects online that I keep tabs on (Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Apache, Mozilla, jQuery etc.) all still use mailing lists. They have web interfaces but the bulk of discussion still happens through the mailing list (and bizarrely, IRC.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Ah yes... agreed that it's just the medium. I was naturally expecting a forum with the option to subscribe to topics and receive e-mails if you want them. Typically I don't like subscriptions because I don't want the spam and also I like to pick the time when I read something, so I prefer the pull model rather than the push model.
Wout