I agree with David on this, Facebook is cancer and forums have some definite advantages over mailing lists where categorization and ease of access are concerned.
A forum will also make it somewhat easier to recruit new people for the cause IMO.

On December 5, 2014 5:25:55 AM EET, "handygeek@???" <handygeek@???> wrote:
>Facebook is a real bad idea - many of us refuse to even open
>an account on that black hole of exhibitionism and voyeurism -
>not to mention it is resource intensive.
>
>A well designed & managed Forum places information and
>resources all neatly connected in one place.
>
>Following a thread on email can get tiresome - especially
>when users don't change the Subject to properly reflect text
>content and when there's a flurry of noise-posts.
>
>A Forum captures & organizes text, images, links, etc.
>
>IMHO ...
>
>> Glad someone brought up the idea of forums.
>>
>> Being an avid email user, I get forum updates by email, so I
>> experience no substantial difference between forums and mailing
>> lists, save for protocol compatibility and bandwidth utilization.
>> Of course, mail is also pretty easy to deal with in a simple text
>> console, and forums not always so.
>>
>> What are the useful distinctions as experienced by those who prefer
>> forums? Is it about the manner in which the topics are
>> threaded/tagged/categorized, the differences in filtering/managing
>> noise, a specific preference for HTTP rather than SMTP... or?
>>
>> Just curious. :)
>>
>> -8
>
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