[members-discuss] Is mailing list become too small for RIPE?

> Now we have 13,000 members, and keep growing at 2000 member a year,
> with all those amount of active discussion, maybe maillng is not such
> a good idea for such big group, maybe Forum(like this one for example
> http://community.mybb.com/) will do much better in:1. put QnA for new
> comers, 2. organise discussion better and more readable way.3. let
> everyone dealing with it while they have time, as i believe Email
> mostly are more time critical things(at least for me personally, I
> know I can unscripbe but I do want to follow the discussion but don't
> want to receive 1000 mail traffic a day from a single list.)
> 

The mailing list is the best way I can imagine. I can filter e-mail all the way
I want. In fact messages from RIPE ML are redirected to a RIPE folder right now,
inbox stays clean with only productivity messages.
I can't see how the discussion would be better organized or more readable than
how I choose to read and organize it. The unsubscribe topic was a simple
select/delete in my MUA, those hijacking the thread to unsubscribe was a hit of
a key to remove the message and skip to the next useful email. Really I don't
want to go to a web page, login, load 300kB of useless JS+HTML crap (over my 3G
connection when on the road), scroll down a bunch of messages, click to display
the next page, scroll more, find where I stopped reading yesterday to resume.
And if my connection goes down while I am posting on your forum, I probably will
have to retype my message because a cookie or some other Web-junk decided I was
not allowed to resume. And when the forum goes on maintenance, I cannot re-read
the messages. There are so many ways this can come to a failure...

Denis