List to Forum?

Jeff Wilson · 09 Dec 2010, 18:16 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:16:21 -0600 (CST)
Subject: (urth) List to Forum?
In-Reply-To: <22CBEBD6-8293-4DEE-89DA-7999DA2305D2 at butcherbaker.org>
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	<22CBEBD6-8293-4DEE-89DA-7999DA2305D2 at butcherbaker.org>
Message-ID: <77d67c965507d15f8aabff72015b11a2.squirrel at webmail.prismnet.com>

> What about migrating this list into a message board forum?
> This format is so archaic and difficult.
> With a forum, if you don't want to check in, you don't get four thousand
> emails to deal with.
> When you check back in, discussions are very discoverable and linear.
> Trying to go back and follow any thread on this list is a chore to say the
> least.

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