On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:42:00 -0700, John Cliff wrote:
Dont think http://forums.cgsociety.org/ for instance would work all that well as a mail list :)
It's *painfully* slow. Took at least 30 seconds to load up the 3D stills message list, and now my browser is hung while it continues to load the page. No thanks. If it takes more than a few seconds to pull up a list of messages, most people are going to say "forget this" and go find something else to do. I'm now on 3 minutes waiting for the page to load - that's simply unacceptable. I'm going to have to kill my browser now.
If the choice is something like this or nothing, I'll go with nothing.
Please don't conflate NNTP and e-Mail lists - the two are completely different, and while many e-mail programs can serve as NNTP readers, that doesn't mean they're the same technology.
Jim