Re: TECH: Why this low-tech forum?

Gary Shannon said:
> One big advantage of the bbs format is that there need
> not be any daily posting limits because your mailbox
> will never get flooded with hundreds of messages on
> topics you're not interested in.  You pick the topics
> you wish to participate in without the overhead of
> downloading the hundreds of others that you are not
> interested in.  This makes the bbs approach much more
> efficient for dial-up users since it doesn't waste so
> much bandwidth of unwanted stuff.

We could start thinking about a compromise, perhaps.

I have phpBB installed on two of my websites (mostly for structured
weblogs, and I haven't started to populate them yet), and I could put a
Conlang category on one of them. Then, if a discussion topic happens to
arise on this list that is challenging everybody's posting limits, then a
forum or thread could be created on the BBS to provide a little elbow
room.

Just an idea. I *don't* want to create a venue that would compete directly
with this list, only one that would complement it.

-- Mark