[cgiapp] Future of the wiki

[Lyle]

Cees Hek wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Mark Fuller <azfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Mailing lists seem so 1990. I'd ditch it and go with a forum.
>>     
>
> A forum requires me to actively participate (ie go to the forum every
> day to see what is there).  A mailing list allows me to passively keep
> in touch since I check my email regularly throughout the day.  I don't
> read every message on the list, but I at least see the subjects and
> look at the stuff that interests me.
>
> I think switching to a forum would loose a lot of lurkers on this list...
>   

Cees is completely right. Many of us are very busy people and wouldn't 
have time to monitor a forum. But having the emails pop in let us 
quickly scan over the subjects, while we are getting on with our work. 
There is no way I would have caught this thread if it was on a forum.


Lyle