Re: TECH: Why this low-tech forum?

On Tue, 4 May 2004 02:56:36 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

> I'm addicted to a number of mailing lists and online forums, and rather
> like both.
>
> I would, however, strongly prefer CONLANG to remain as a mailing list.
> Apart from the tendency to have a higher signal/noise ratio of mailing
> lists, I believe CONLANG would lose it's unique personality if it were
> converted into a forum. As mentioned, there already are online fora for
> discussing conlangs - let the list remain for us who want to commincate
> about conlangs via the mailing list medium.
>
>                                                              Andreas
I agree, although I have absolutely no objection to somebody starting a
"high-tech" whatever in addition, for those who would be able to use it
(unfortunately not me).
I should also point out that some list members are limited to computers
over which they have no control (I had to use the public library for a
couple of months), or old machines that can't run the new stuff.
On the other hand, a pure email system with no archives wouldn't work for
me. In my case (am I allowed to use "case" like that?), also, I can only
read my mail with webmail, which is very slow, so I use the listserv web
interface.
Whatever. Sorry for rambling, but this is a "community" thing so I thought
I should speak up.

Jeff