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

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Paul Nijjar wrote, On 5/16/2007 8:51 PM:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Unsolicited wrote:
> 
>>> 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?
> 
>     It is one-way communication. I realize that it may annoy those who
> use the RSS feeds already.
> 
>     I think it does add a level of communication because it prompts the
> list users to respond to good questions that are posted to the site.
> 
>> 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?
> 
>     The problem is that not everybody sees the website as a static site.
> People do ask questions and post comment-worthy topics, and all too
> often they are ignored. That is not fair to the posters and it makes the
> LUG look bad.
> 
>     The reason I feel okay about putting notifications on the mailing
> list without asking anybody is because many of these posts *should* be
> going to the mailing list anyways.
> 
>     I put this up as an experiment. If people hate it and want it
> disabled then that is fine -- I can do that (maybe after some discussion
> or (shudder) a vote). But I think we should try it on for size before
> dismissing it out of hand. I think this has value as a stopgap solution
> to the communication gulf between the mailing list and the website.
> 
>     If we really don't want people posting discussion topics to the
> website then maybe the website needs to change in some ways (removing
> comments and maybe blogs, for example.) Right now the website is sending
> the wrong signals. Otherwise maybe lots of people would like feeds, or
> people would like to enable notifications on their own website accounts.

Maybe what's really needed is a website design / functional review?