[Nottingham] Too much traffic

[Chris Taylor]

Ignore this reply, for some reason I thought this was the Apache user's list
:D

Not really paying attention....anyway, that has about 4 times the traffic of
this list and they're sticking with it.

Chris Taylor - chris@x-bb.org - The guy with the PS2 WebServer -
http://www.x-bb.org/chris.asc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Taylor" <chris@x-bb.org>
To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Too much traffic


> This was brought up not long ago (January IIRC?), with the conclusion that
> the majority wanted to stick with the list :)
>
> I agree personally, Forums encourage too much of a social atmosphere, and
> most of them are easily hacked and so on, they also use far more server
CPU
> and bandwidth.....IRC is just plain unsuitable.
>
> An IRC channel might be a good idea to supplement the list, for people who
> only have quick, simple queries that can be answered easily, but for
> anything major, a mailing list is probably the best way IMO.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris Taylor - chris@x-bb.org - The guy with the PS2 WebServer -
> http://www.x-bb.org/chris.asc
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Iain Alexander" <iain.alexander@businessforward.co.uk>
> To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:16 PM
> Subject: [Nottingham] Too much traffic
>
>
> > Email traffic seems to be getting heaving in the mailing list, would it
> > prudent to consider another method of communication instead of a
> > listserver?
> >
> > I'm specifically thinking about web forum or perhaps irc?
> >
> > Thoughts. Opinions, flames always welcome :)
> >
> > Iain
> >
> >
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