(urth) List to Forum?

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Thu Dec 9 13:39:38 PST 2010


On 12/9/2010 1:10 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> From: "Son of Witz" <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
>> What about migrating this list into a message board forum?
>> This format is so archaic and difficult.
>> With a forum, if you don't want to check in, you don't get four
>> thousand emails to deal with.
>> When you check back in, discussions are very discoverable and linear.
>> Trying to go back and follow any thread on this list is a chore to say
>> the least.
>
> I quite like lists - they may be old-fashioned but in some respects they
> are more convenient than forums, which involve logging in and may still
> forget what posts you have read.
>
> I also suspect lists create more activity.
>
> Did you know you can access the threads at
> http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net ? That can be useful
> for looking at older threads.

This was the sekrit answer to my riddle for how the energy creature 
could see what I had written after he deleted it; "five kilometers from 
my foot" means it was five clicks away from the link in the footer at 
the bottom of my (and all the other) list messages.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >



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