They can be separate, but the website had a mechanism for users to manage their subscription. I haven't looked in several years, though, so I don't know if TIG modified it. Can any TIG folks comment?
ac ------------------------ Andy Carvin andycarvin at yahoo com www.andycarvin.com www.pbs.org/learningnow ------------------------ ----- Original Message ---- From: Claude Almansi <claude.alma...@gmail.com> To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group <digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:57:28 PM Subject: Re: [DDN] in search of volunteer moderators (was The future of DDN) Thanks for your answer to Cindy Lemcke-Hoong's question on moderating work, Andy: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Andy Carvin <andycar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > To facilitate and encourage discussion while dealing with users who break the > discussion rules. It's pretty straightforward. > > btw, one thing to point out - if the group decides to migrate to another tool > - googlegroups, etc - there may be some integration work required because > membership to the list can be controlled through the digitaldivide.net > website membership. But I'm not sure I correctly understand your last point: wasn't signing up for the list separate from being member of the site, at least technically? As to a possible migration, Steven Clift's proposal (copied below) seems more appropriate than a google group. Google has been emanating strange connotations lately, abruptly closing google lively after several classes had adopted it, their discutable metabolization of Jotspot into google sites - not to mention what's happening on the video front. There's a distinct smell of a google drive towards monoculture, maybe less pungent than Microsoft's was, but there all the same. Steven's proposal on the other hand is is "GPL open source". And that seems more consonant to DDN. Moreover, there is an RSS feed (well, google groups have them too, granted, but see above), which means that the last messages to the list could be displayed on the DDN site, couldn't they? Happy New Year to All Claude On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Steven Clift <s...@publicus.net> wrote: > If folks want an improved interface that does not sacrifice e-mail access, > but makes web participation more viable I'd be glad to host the DDN list on > http://groups.dowire.org > > We'd still need a forum manager - I'd set the group to unmoderated (only > members can post), moderate new members, and use our unique volume control > setting to limit people to making 3 posts a day each (we normally use 2 > which really diversifies participation on active forums). This is a much > less taxing facilitation model. > > The nice thing about the GroupServer platform that I use (also at > http://forums.e-democracy.org) is that it is GPL open source, evolving > feature wise (for example it automatically resizes photos sent in via e-mail > and only puts them on the web), and web feeds are native. > > I've recently figured out a way to take the feed and integrate the listing > of my posts in the feed output on Facebook - more: > http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/179 > > Cheers, > Steven Clift > E-Democracy.Org _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
