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

Hi Lu,

Like your idea, I prefer forum over a mailing list when it comes to
discussions. it would be much easier to organize topics. mailing lists are
only good for announcements when you have 10k+ members.


Regards,

Arash Naderpour


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Lu Heng <h.lu at anytimechinese.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys:
>
> With overwhelming mail traffic for past few days, I just realise one
> thing that I'd like to share with fellow colleagues.
>
> 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.)
>
> Let me know what everybody thinks.
>
>
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> Lu
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