Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:07:12AM -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote:
> The new B-Hebrew Forum is now open!
> 
> As previously announced, this email discussion list is moving to a
> web-based forum. We will NOT be automatically creating accounts for
> current members. If you wish to continue to participate in this
> community, you MUST register and create a new account.
> 

Dear b-hebrew moderators and members!

I consider this very unfortunate. The web forum (and especially phpPP)
is in my eyes very user unfriendly to the reader and provides much inferior
user experience compared to what a decent MUA can provide (no threads view,
no possibility to display subjects only, forced pagination which makes it
very hard to search for something, and - what is the worst - the need to dive
into every topic to see if there is something new and the impossibility to
see just the lates posts from the entire forum).

Moreover, with a mailing list, every list member has an access to all emails
sent (so that no stupid censorship can occur). Everyone can have his private
archive so that if someone decides to shut down the forum, one still have
an access to what have been written so far.

Therefore I will not register within the new forum, It would just cost me
too more energy and time.

However, if someone would like to continue with a mailing list on biblical
Hebrew, I could possibly try to create one privately. Please contact me
privately on this email, if you are interested.


Petr Tomasek