I generally agree, Ken. The listserves have at least one big advantage over
many of the newer methods, though. They are a "push" method instead of a
"pull" one. I have seen many, formerly very active, groups go belly up as a
result of that sort of change. There's a lot of value in pushing all
conversations out to all users by keeping them engaged, rather than waiting
for people to check in when they happen to remember.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > And finally, he could decide that it simply isn't worth it to try and
> > recreate the list, to the point of failure. One could choose to install
> the
> > latest version software, or switch to something new, and simply refer
> folks
> > to the archives for the old stuff. There are pretty obvious drawbacks to
> > that, but some benefits, too. The largest benefit is being back on line.
> > Every day off-line probably means permanently losing more subscribers. I
> > don't know if the LUG was partially supported by advertising. If it was,
> > those subscribers are important.
>
> Not my dog in the hunt, but if it was me (and we are in the same kind
> of round boat here on the Olympus List) is to just do a wholesale
> changeout to an entirely different method. Listserves were important
> ages ago before forum software grew up and other methods developed.
> Oh, and we now have multiple other social medial alternatives that we
> could tap into.
>
> Of course, no matter what solution is proposed, somebody ain't going to
> like it.
>
>
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