New ways of discussion.

[Ingemar Nordgren]

I am sceptical to a forum solution. It is almost impossible to find the threads you like. When I am at Arkeologiforum I feel always like I find no ways at all to what I look for. Keep this simple list! I would however want to have more discussions about Gothic history, archaeology, religion et c. and not only linguistics. Why should I have to go to Germanic  list in order to discuss the Goths when there is a Gothic list. This is also the reason I joined the list originally! Linguistics is interesting of course but only in combination with all other aspects of the Goths. I intend BTW to attend a Gothic symposion on Wulfila in Uppsala in june. It is an anniversary of the birth of Wulfila in 311 AD. A lot of great researchers  will lecture including my old adviser Herwig Wolfram. I do indeed look forward to this. If somebody is interested contact Lars Munkhammmar or Anders Kaliff at Carolina Rediviva.

Ingemar

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Johan Jönsson <brevlistor at ...> wrote:
>
> 2011/5/16 Frithureiks <gadrauhts at ...>
> 
> >
> >
> > This might be controversial but I want to ask the members of this list if
> > it could be a good idea to think about a new way of discussions.
> > We are now 630 members of this list and it has been sent over 10500
> > messenges. But lately these last years it is not very active anymore as it
> > was when I became a member, as I recall.
> >
> > How could be make all 630 members active?
> > Could it be better with another form of forum, such as modern forums?
> >
> > I would probably prefer such a forum, since it makes it possible to make
> > different sections of themes. There could be one for gothic history, one for
> > culture, one for translation help, one for neogothic and neologisms etc,
> > etc.
> >
> > What do you all 630 people think about it??
> >
> 
> My experience tells me that trying to get an already somewhat inactive group
> to communicate through a forum/message board is an effective way to most of,
> if not all, the activity that remains.
> 
> The thing about a forum is that you have to go there to see if anything new
> has happened (yes, there are solutions with RSS feeds and so on, but most
> people don't use them). If there's activity, if you can count on new posts
> having been made since yesterday, then you might go there daily. If not,
> you'll stop checking it out every day, which in itself means that it'll
> become less active. Less activity means fewer visits. Eventually, most
> members will probably forget about it.
> 
> A mailing list, on the other hand, can survive being inactive, since you'll
> get the mail when they're posted, even if nothing has happened for a week.
> 
> //Johan Jönsson
> --
> http://johanjonsson.net/wikipedia
> 
> 
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