On 12/26/2015 1:13 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I think the root of this issue is the type of activity "using the Internet" is for different groups of people. This is exactly it. In my opinion, having different interfaces to the same information/list would be great. If the goals are to have the most participation and active membership, having different methods to communicate is best. One of the benefits of Yahoo groups was there was a web interface and options for the mailing list. I understand it's debatable how usable either was, but the idea was there. Absolutes of one or the other just limits use for someone.
With that said though, as mentioned, there are ways to have a web forum also be a mailing list, etc. Think about it in another sense, the way mainframes are used today still, some people prefer to have the terminal directly to it for efficiency, others will interface a web UI to input/output data via a pretty mobile friendly form, or even have modern APIs translate to it. In the end, the core information is still in one place and can be used by many methods.