Originally posted by GTPBoost:
I guess you were using the web interface then Brian. I'd bet if we looked at all the membership on the Yahoo list and what format most people were using it would be email, whether individually or by digest.
I was using the web interface. Yes, lots of people were using email. I do believe the emails also had ads tacked on to them.
Now how in the world can you guarantee that this web board won't go down? I've yet to run a server that hasn't gone down at some point and unless it's utilizing automated backups there will be threads lost. My email archive is certainly searchable too. When I know something is in the archives I don't get it from the ones online, I get it from my database and I never fail to hit on what I want to find. As for emailing an idividual item to myself... I may not find some item of great use right now but might later and I'll surely recall having read about something and then could search my whole archive.
I can't guarantee it, but our provider has an excellent record of never being down in several years and all systems are on redundant servers as well as redundant network connections. This is no small-time server sitting in my closet that is run off a cable modem line going into my house. Its a true, professionally run, dedicated server and downtime should honestly be minimal, if any, and speed will remain lightning fast. I can't guarantee no network problems between you and the server, but I can almost guarantee excellent server performance otherwise.
I think it's unfortunate that you just decided for yourself that this was a better answer without any input from the people that actually use the list. Yahoo has a polling function, this would have been a good time to use it. Think about it, the last time you posted to the GPML was Jan 2001. Yes I had to look, but I knew it had been ages. Haven't even seen you get on someone for the flame crap that gets tossed about regularly. I'd hardly even have guessed you were even reading it anymore.
I didn't do it as a selfish "screw you all I'll do what I want" decision. Though not with you, I had discussed this with several people and everyone thought it was a smart way to go. So far most people seem to like it better, and we cater to a different crowd than the other message board out there, so its not like its a worthless effort. Frankly I was reading very little of the old list just because of the slow speed and advertising. Mail was not an option for me as I already get hundreds and hundreds per day that I barely have time for. This may allow me to be more involved (which some people may consider a bad thing
) but for the most part I still think this has advantages.
I'll admit this board seems to work nice, but then it's not even close to being overloaded yet.
See above. We will stay ahead of the GHz and MB curve so that it does not become overloaded.
Actually I think a UBB board would be great, IF you had an option as a subscriber to get it all in email. I haven't seen this option on any UBB board and the cost that is encountered to run a UBB board with the required bandwidth for it to run smoothly has to be many times that of a an email list.
I think those are all things that Infopop plans to build into UBB in the near future.
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