What to do with all of these links

Seth Dimbert s.dimbert at fhmr.com
Wed Feb 19 17:37:20 CST 2003


>Personally, I like the links sent to the mailing list. I probably would
never go
>to a site specifically for links - I'm much too busy. It's much easier for
me to
>just click on the link in an email. If it catches my interest that is and
if I
>have time for a quick diversion.

This is an entirely reasonable objection to using a push-model (e-mail)
rather than a pull-model (web site). The answer is, of course, to provide
the best of both worlds by creating, perhaps, a message board that users can
subscribe to, so that each user can decide between options like:

 - No e-mail: I'll visit the site to read posts
 - e-mail digest: I'll visit the site most days, and if I don't, I will read
the digest at the end of the day
 - e-mail subscription: I will never visit the site; I want every post in
every thread e-mailed to me

Comments?

-SD




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