On 2007-07-13, brad clawsie
- take this service off of email entirely. try a web forum system (you may have to slum it and use php). i don't recommend nntp, that just forces us to use gmane since very few isps provide nntp now. a web forum would allow you to segment interest sections while retaining a global search etc. if you use code like slash, you can just moderate noise makers off the page. you can set up a yahoo group in ten minutes.
Switching to a web forum system will kill any interest I have in following this community. I suspect I'm not alone. It's usenet done /wrong/. E-mail, the gmane web interface, and the gmane nntp interface combine into a very serviceable system, where I can choose my client, and on two of those paths, my client keeps track of what I read, rather than pushing that onto an overloaded server. The one thing that I can suggest is putting a note about "other ways of access" on the mailing list pages, and heck, on "community introduction" pages. -- Aaron Denney -><-