7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
5:38 a.m.
At 09:10 PM 3/6/2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
Expectations have
risen along with file and mail size. I can't speak for Jay, but
it's clear that classiccmp is moving as much mail as a netcom.com
or aol.com was 10 years ago. If my, or your, site can't keep up
with it, it's no longer acceptable.
Gee, I thought that my previous post would've generated
more nibbles:
At 09:08 PM 3/5/2005, John Foust wrote:
It all makes me wonder if the schism shouldn't be
towards replacing
the mailing list with a web forum. That'll show the people who are
stuck reading this list on dial-up at 300 baud on an ASR-33.
On a web, the crud can be edited, threads corralled, useful messages
moved to the FAQ, etc.
Talk about the inevitability of using modern tools to support
our habit of old computers.
A few more Slashdottings on interesting topics and this list
could expand. Would a doubling of list traffic and/or subscribers
cause undue burden, or at least cause the current volunteers to
run away screaming? At what point will the list traffic exceed
the mail-acceptance levels of either old VAXes or people running
mail servers on consumer-grade connections or people's willingness
to wade through mail, message by message?
Yes, a web forum would be Different and All, but at least it
throws away all this haggling about list traffic and MX debugging.
A little LAMP server, a little postNuke, we could be up in minutes.
Yes, I know it would require a modern web browser. Is this the
Civil War re-enactor list? Are my buttons and hardtack not
authentic enough? Why the emotional attraction to a mailing list
as opposed to the web?
- John