<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 5, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Ben Holtsclaw wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <div>I agree with Harry. I do not like the mailing list. Those that do like the mailing list always advocate Nabble. For those that advocate that solution, do you even realize that you can't post on Nabble unless you <em>are</em> subscribed to the mailing list? <br></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Fair points, the plan to address this is that we are moving to a new back-end to our hosting infrastructure that has unified logins. Once this is in place we can make it so you are a "member" of the mailing list as soon as you have an id, although set to not receive mail, then we'll have a subscriptions options page where you can just check the lists you want sent to you via email, and the nabble forums can be embedded in our page directly. It is not perfect but much closer to something usable. I understand that some are more comfortable than others with different modes of communication. We are trying to find a balance between being able to serve the community with the best way to communicate for them, and us being able to actually monitor and maintain it. A forum is pretty useless if no one responds or monitors it and already we are flooded by the amount on the mailing list, having to answer the same question the same day in both because someone prefers one to the other and having to spend time checking both is not a good use of time. Do you think that if we better integrate the nabble forums into our site and list subscriptions that it would be a usable system?</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div></body></html>