minor list changes

[John Foust]

At 09:10 PM 3/6/2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
>Expectations have
>risen along with file and mail size. I can't speak for Jay, but
>it's clear that classiccmp is moving as much mail as a netcom.com
>or aol.com was 10 years ago. If my, or your, site can't keep up
>with it, it's no longer acceptable.

Gee, I thought that my previous post would've generated
more nibbles:

At 09:08 PM 3/5/2005, John Foust wrote:
>It all makes me wonder if the schism shouldn't be towards replacing
>the mailing list with a web forum.  That'll show the people who are
>stuck reading this list on dial-up at 300 baud on an ASR-33.
>On a web, the crud can be edited, threads corralled, useful messages 
>moved to the FAQ, etc.

Talk about the inevitability of using modern tools to support
our habit of old computers.  

A few more Slashdottings on interesting topics and this list 
could expand.  Would a doubling of list traffic and/or subscribers 
cause undue burden, or at least cause the current volunteers to
run away screaming?  At what point will the list traffic exceed 
the mail-acceptance levels of either old VAXes or people running 
mail servers on consumer-grade connections or people's willingness
to wade through mail, message by message?

Yes, a web forum would be Different and All, but at least it 
throws away all this haggling about list traffic and MX debugging.
A little LAMP server, a little postNuke, we could be up in minutes.

Yes, I know it would require a modern web browser.  Is this the
Civil War re-enactor list?  Are my buttons and hardtack not
authentic enough?  Why the emotional attraction to a mailing list
as opposed to the web? 

- John