RE: [GZG] Re: [LST] Mail list vs. Forums

["Paul Owen" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having explored the BB route before for Jon and others, its like a lot
of things each has their own uses and users and although it would be
nice to have both up and running and keep everyone happy, in my
experience that will never happen.  

One or the other will die out, what you have to bear in mind is that
having both will only please half the people half the time, but its
biggest impact will be to  _double_ Jons workload in having to answer
questions in two locations many of which will be duplicates between both
places.  This fact alone would be enough for me to say pick one and
stick too it and as the list is well known and used that would be my
choice, it would be anyway as I favour lists but that's beside the
point.  Having more than one medium for voicing oppinions tends to
dilute the quality of the content and reduce the number of users in both
places which inevitably leads to disillusioned users and a catch 22
situation.

We are working on improving the officail GZG site and have been for some
time now, there are no plans to include a BB though, but it will be a
content managed site containing supplemental material for GZG related
goods as well as all the usual announcments etc that go with these
things, there are no plans as yet to make people register and allow then
editorial style access, the site is capable of that, its just turned
off.

The BB site does look very nice though and also very official!!  Not
sure how Jon feels about that part of it and yes I have cc'ed him on
this.

Paul Owen
Binary Networks Ltd
M:07980 823765
T:01476 514687
 


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