Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

The migration happened just a month or two ago. Are we talking about the same thing? 

TBH, most discussion in the WISP space has moved to Facebook. The busy WISPA mailing lists used to get about 20k 
messages per year. When I last checked, they were down to 5k or so and on a downward trend. Meanwhile, the Facebook 
groups have exploded, both in members per group and the number of groups. 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Bryan Fields" <Bryan () bryanfields net> 
To: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 8:21:23 AM 
Subject: Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...? 

On 3/22/21 9:05 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> Usually efforts like this suck, but whatever WISPA did this year with the migration from a mailman system to an 
> integrated forum\mailing list solution seems to work really well. It's not exactly like mailman, but it works very 
> well. 

I used to read that, and ISP-Wireless prior, but after the migration it just 
stopped working. After migration the content quality went down and the 
pagination on a forum sucks. 

The other major issue with a forum is it allows any admin to go in and edit 
your message/post. Unless you've setup moderation on the mailing list, this 
is generally not possible. The other advantage to a list is you can sign your 
messages to prevent these sorts of shenanigans. 

Simply put, if the option is there, it will be used. 
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