WL-gurus: awesome as mailing list?

[nedb]

Seeing the new content and members here on wanderlodgegurus is sweet! So please don't take this as a gripe, I am w-a-y excited by what I've seen already

I would like to suggest that the bulletin board be echoed as a mailing list. I can understand why members would prefer a bulletin board interface for discussions, not the least of which is the absence of great flurries of email (with pictures) when a discussion is hot. Many of us pay data fees and have data plans that would be more costly if the list we emailed to us. Still, a mailing list has the advantage of delivering new posts, downloaded as mail in the background, without the overhead of navigating from topic to topic in a cumbersome bulletin board format.

And I may as well say that mailing lists have the great advantage of providing members with a discussion archive on our individual computers, where we can devise our own custom ways of storing and accessing past discussions. If the site is down or goes away for whatever reason, we wouldn't lose access to foregoing discussions.

Mailman is a one open-soure mailing list software package.

I realize that this would be a major feature that I wouldn't presume to ask for if I stopped to consider the number of unpaid programmer-hours needed to hack a mailing list into a bulletin board. But since we're brainstorming ideas, this (the idea, not the programming) will be my first pitiful contribution. I'll admit it doesn't hold a candle to great ideas like the discussion categories already of the site. This is just a meta-aspect of the usefulness of internet discussion groups. Anyway, I find that getting discussions in my inbox is useful.

Cheers, everyone. Isn't it amazing how interesting, fast, and dependable this new site is already?!

With my best regards and encouragement.

--Ned

Ned Bedinger
1991 SP36