Handling Politics the plug-discuss way?

[Ryan Rix]

Bob Elzer wrote:
> 
> Each has it's own drawbacks and advantages. For one it would increase the
> web site traffic. More traffic, and they see other stuff that may interest
> them.
> 
> Not sure if it could still be part of gmane or not.
> 

GMane only handles mailing lists, not forum software :(

> It would certainly not cause someone to leave the list, they would just
> skip the topics they're not interested in.
> It would cut down on internet waste, I haven't looked how many people are
> on
> the list ?  But all those email to people who just delete them is a big
> waste of all that traffic.
> 
> I'm sure something could be done for someone that wants an offline
> archive, but how many people save all this on their own systems, I know
> where to go if I need to recheck something, and messages that teach me
> something, I save in a folder.
> 
> I don't think the admins would have a rift over where to store the
> archives. lol

I mean, half of the list's archive (the previous one) would reside in 
lurker, and the other half would reside in $forumsoftware

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