On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 11:03 -0500, dimesio wrote: > IMO, there are enough experienced users on the mailing list to sustain > it, if they want to, but the "if they want to" is key. I find it very > striking that while several mailing list users have stated > emphatically that they will not switch to the forum, absolutely no one > has said they want the mailing list to continue. > I intend to stay on the mailing list. If it vanishes I'm likely to provide less advice and help to others for one simple reason: I look at all messages that arrive on the mailing list and, if I see a thread about something that I understand and can help with, I'll respond. However, because scanning down a list of forum topics and then paging along a thread to see what, if anything, is new on it is much slower than clicking through mail messages, if I have to browse threads on a forum its much less likely that I'll take notice of those started by others or visit the forum unless I *know* there's something being discussed that I'm interested in. I would add, that, if the mailing list is replaced by an RSS feed I'd probably subscribe to that because it too provides a direct access to active posts. One thing to consider, though, before going down the RSS route: what software is being considered to provide an RSS feed? How easy would it be to implement spam filtering for it? Bear in mind that we know how to automate spam filtering on mailing lists. Martin