I feel like many people on the mailing list don't want to hear peoples opinions on the forums, "its to much noise" "people on the mailing list are more engaged contributors" and so on.
How do you figure that? The lists certainly don't have a bouncer at the door, so to speak; anyone is free to join and post.
"Actually, I find the folks who tend to avoid Talk to be quite a bit MORE engaged on average."
I will not be visiting the t.m.o thread but will miss this list if it is yet another list that becomes a victim of the everything should be a forum mob.
I don't wanna have to follow all that rumor only to avoid missing something important.
* There's more noise on tmo; * The SNR is higher. I don't know why; I'm not suggesting that the people on a mailing list are better; it just is. In our circumstance. That's not to say that there aren't excellent posts and posters here either.