<VV> Elitist ?

[Bryan Blackwell]

Receiving the mail does require subscription, but *anyone* can look at 
the archives at http://www.vv.corvair.org/pipermail/virtualvairs/.  For 
that matter non-subscribers can post, but those posts have to be 
approved.

What's kind of dumb about this conversation is that it's easy to just 
go to the archives and read online if that's what you want to do - I 
didn't have e-mail last week during the day so that's what I did.  You 
could just be a member of the list so you can post, but set the 
subscription to "no mail".

BTW, push vs pull is a point worth considering.  All the folks who keep 
saying web forums are better for everyone seem to forget there's been a 
Corvair web forum over at the Corvair Center for several years.  I'm 
personally getting a little tired of being insulted like this, 
especially since VV appears to still be a successful format.  If web 
formats always worked better then nobody would use e-mail, but the 
reality is that the dynamic of a "push" mechanism is different from 
"pull".

--Bryan

On Aug 9, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Padgett wrote:

> Huh ? I am not on that board but AFAIR (as far as I recall) I had to 
> register to get onto this one. The fact that it is push instead of 
> pull and the filtering is done by sending address does not make it any 
> less controlled.