First let me say thank you to you all for registering with the new P2P site.
I would like to take a moment and address one concern about why we chose to switch to a web forum rather than keep the old discussion list structure. No matter how misguided our thought processes maybe, the reasons I stated earlier were the only reasons for the switch to a web forum. I have heard many conflicting stories about spam on the old P2P site, but the initial decision was that with a Forum we could have the most control over stopping spam and identity spoofing. The only way to do that with a discussion list is to use passwords in emails and heavy moderation that we felt would be too hard to newer users and require too many resources to moderate.
If you visit any other Wiley website such as
http://www.wiley.com ,
http://www.dummies.com , or
http://www.cliffsnotes.com you will find that heavy web advertising is not the way Wiley does business. Wiley has a long tradition (almost 200 years) of book publishing and as such that is our focus. We use these websites to add value to our customers not to try gain extra pennies from click through adds that only annoy the people we are trying to serve.
Having said that we also decided to launch the new P2P site as quickly as possible and see if their was a large enough interest in the post through email feature for us to develop a solution while retaining the Forum website which is far less cluttered and easier for newer users to navigate.
Obviously you have posted your strong desires on this subject, and while I canât commit to anything on the first day of the re-launch I can say that I will look into what it would take to add this feature and post a response here in the next few days with my findings..
Thank you for taking the time to let us know your concerns, as we really are trying to make this the best site for new users and programming veterans both.
Thank you,
James Sample
Director, IS-Infrastructure
Wiley Publishing, Inc.