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