[kwlug disc.] KWLUG - The Kitchener Waterloo Linux User Group new content notification for mail-forum-merge

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webhost at kwlug.org wrote, On 5/16/2007 10:33 AM:
> Greetings mail-forum-merge,
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> Recent content - 1 new post
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> 1. Nefarious Plan
> Published Blog entry by pnijjar
> [ http://kwlug.org/node/537 ]
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> If all goes well (?) people on the mailing list will see this post even
> if they never have visited the website in their lives. This increases
> the potential for spam, but it adds a level of communication that has
> been missing since the days of kwlug-forums.


> it adds a level of communication

But does it?

Isn't this one-way communication, also known as 'speaking', not
communication? Is this not also the point of the RSS feeds?

I got your note twice - from the list and via RSS. It feels like there
are certain 'advantages' to keeping the forms of communication separate.

I understand there is a bit of a conundrum, the web site being
'underused' for forum / question & answer content, and there being
multiple paths of communications.

Personally, at least thus far, the web site has felt like a place to
deposit static content, and the list a place of dynamic interaction.
Unless / until there is only a single conduit, the web site, is this
not just the way things are?