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A men's long hair mailing list was recently created and everyone is welcome to join. It's basically dedicated to the same topics as this hyperboard. The list is currently unmoderated, but if the need arises, it'll be moderated. All messages are also archived forever.
If you want to sign up, enter your e-mail and click this button:
This hyperboard rocks, but I just thought that a mailing list (w/ each message delivered to your e-mail address) would be really nice...
Uksi
There are already at least two out there. Initial interest eventually petered out, I think.
I don't doubt for a moment the good intentions of those who have started them, either. But there are some things to think about.
This place we're at now isn't that crowded. I'd say we should all stay together, here. Being a longhair can be lonely enough - we're scattered thinly through the population as it is. Why take that unpleasant situation further as a matter of our own doing?
Corporations make it really easy now to set up mailing lists, "communities", "clubs", etc., because they want traffic to their advertising supported sites. Just because it's easy, that doesn't mean we want to jump at every opportunity. Besides, do we want the advertising? Do we want to have to give our e-mail addresses to a big corporation to participate? Though I don't post anonymously here, some guys feel a need to, and I'd rather stick with a forum where they can participate too.
This board is run by "one of us", it is free of advertising, and you don't have to jump through any hoops to take part. What more could we want!
Well Said Bill. Bravo!
Kilgore
Besides, while I like to read the messages here, I read those of interest to me. I wouldn't want every single one of them dropped into my mail box. It's already too crowded.
Aragorn
I had run a longhaired mens' mailing list a couple of years ago. After a few weeks of several postings per day the traffic dried out to less than one posting per week. Eventually I decided that it was not worth to maintain it (handling subscription requests and culling undelivrable addresses) for such a low traffic.
The traffic on Victor's board was pretty much the same as today, so that I doubt that a mailing list would have more success today than two years ago.
Nick