Re: mailing list

rumor has it that David wrote:

> Newbie here.  Pls be gentle.
> Has anybody considered setting up a
> typical web-based forum like so many other systems use ? I regularly
> use the ClarkConnect forum, and also help moderate the IpCop forum. 
> There's many others. Most forums work so much better than this
> quaintly old-fashioned mailing-list technology. 

Aak! Please, no!

A web forum requires net access to be able to read. I connect via
dialup and _really_ don't like to have to be online just to read...

> So here goes.  I press the "Send" button knowing
> that I cannot edit, amend or correct this post after its gone. David J

I'm not opposed to a scheme that would have both.

But _please_ don't take away the email!

--    Philip