[Web4lib] Are e-mail discussion lists still relevant?

[Brian Gray]

I agree.

Blogs are not great for ongoing discussion because you have to remember to
go back to participate. Most blog discussions die very quickly. When I teach
about blogs, I tell people they can be a direct replacement for websites and
newsletters, but only as an alternative if discussion is your major goal.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>wrote:

> On 06/30/2009 09:50 AM, Leo Robert Klein wrote:
>
> An e-mail list is still an effective many-to-many forum (or, on most lists,
> at
> least a several-to-many forum with lots of lurkers).  Blogs and tweets are
> virtual podiums with owners saying their piece and maybe allowing comments.
>  I
> don't see how either can or should replace the other.  And with the
> relative
> amounts of online bloviation vs. actual discussion, I hope the good lists
> I'm
> on continue for many years to come