When Jon and Phillip started the Forum here, the question was posed to us on the Goats-comic e-mailing list as to whether or not we would like the lists continued and coexisting peacefully with the forum, or whether we would like them replaced by the forum, or something else. Just curious as to what any of you that use both think, now that the forum has had a bit of time to gel. Me, I like having both. The list seems a bit more, I dunno, personal or something.

Also, since I never joined it due to the horror stories about how busy it used to be... what's the current state of the Goats-fans list?

I prefer the mailing list because it usually has a higher concentration of funny. Also, since i'm lazy, i like the fact that all the new messages come to me rather than having to track them down individually.

Of course, i may be biased considering i have eerie godlike powers on both of the mailing lists, whereas here i'm just a lowly commoner like everybody else. Damn communists.

Goats-fans [yahoo.com] hasn't averaged even 10 messages a day since February, well before the creation of these forums. The mass migration of g-f denizens to LiveJournal [livejournal.com] is the root cause for that list's diminished traffic.

I'd still encourage intelligent, interesting people to join goats-fans [yahoo.com]. Having thick skin is a useful quality, as well.

In Response to luvrhino (#1333):

While it may not have averaged ten messages a day yet, it still has it's "good" days, I'd like to point out. Days when a digest would be a much better choice than individual messages.

In Response to luvrhino (#1333):

If the exodus of G-F peoples to LiveJournal is the reason for the lack of messages on the G-F list, then why hasn't there been a post to the Goats LiveJournal community in months? Seems kind of odd...

I'm Inkarnadine on LJ, if anyone who hasn't already added me would care to.

In Response to Evander (#1335):

Right. We're the same group of people that have far too much time on our hands. Whenever a topic "worthy" of discussion arises, everyone will share their views at great length.

The thing is that new topics aren't usually brought up on g-f anymore. Except for the nefarious Danny Frost, everyone is taking their self-absorbed, public wanking that formerly populated g-f and entering them in their own personal LiveJournals [livejournal.com].

It's a tragedy, really.

In Response to Incarnadine (#1340):

Except during its adolescence, goats-fans rarely was about Goats: The Comic Strip. Rather, it was just a group of individuals that, with notable [mailto] exceptions [mailto], happened to become friends on an individual basis due to their similar grotesque senses of humor.

There's no reason to post to the Goats LiveJournal community [livejournal.com]. Goats-oriented discussions are directed to them fora that reach the maximum possible interested audience...goats-comic [yahoo.com] and this here forum.

wel, for starters, i've never been a big fan of mailing lists. i hate the amount of clogging it causes in my inbox. but that's merely a personal preference.

in my humble opinion, i don't think we really need more than just this. i mean, it's simple enough to read the daily strip, then click on "forums" to come here and talk about it. these forums are guaranteed to look much nicer than the yahoo or livejournal, i'd think (no offense to the creators) and i think they're just a bit superfluous to have.

In Response to dirtygeek (#1350):

Personally, I think that the place to pose this question would be on the mailing lists, because then it would be up to the people it really matters to. If you don't like or use the mailing lists, why should it matter to you if they are worthwhile or not?
I like the mailing lists, and I don't see why we can't have them along with the forums. I will say, though, that goats comic at least seems to be dying a natural death.

bah, rules and regulations! I'm an anarchist man! plus I'm lazy. You also ought to try being lazy. It solves a lot of issues. Consider that stopping the mailing list _by_decree_ would mean someone would have to actually do something, and, if it was a wrong decision, someone (probably else) would have to do something.

That's a lot of something happening.

I think of it like food, if you decide to be, say, vegetarian you have to start asking questions and caring about stuff. If you're not you just eat that big old grease ball of a burger and it tastes good and you rub your belly in a lazy fashion and wonder how long til you can balance a beer on it whilst standing up (this would contribute to the general laziness ethic - less walking to places or finding tables where you could rest your beer).

So I say I don't care, so long as I don't have to do anything that may involve the beer on my belly dropping off. So if the vegetarians want to stop the mailing list, let them, I'll join the one that gets created about 10 minutes later (by luvrhino who is a power freak and won't give up his god like status that easily dammit!) to replace it.