The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over ten
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of regulars over
So Dan,. are you still here? Do you still want to talk me into
putting rigs off of Big Sur?
Doug
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Ahem. Hello? Anyone here?
I'm kind of curious about what happened to the volume of mail in
groups like Brin-L and the Culture list. I have an idea that at
first, several years ago now, the emergence of blogging sucked a lot
of people away from list mail. And now social networking sites have
On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Facebook is the only social network I frequent and while I think it's
great and has its place, it's a terrible forum for any kind of serious
political debate. For one thing, many of the people you know
intimately are probably there, and if
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com wrote:
Ahem. Hello? Anyone here?
I agree with most of what you say, but I just haven't felt like
starting any discussions on this list recently. The two main things
that I have previously been interested in discussing here are SF
Bruce wrote:
Facebook is a pretty terrible forum for almost anything serious. I've never
seen a site that seems to discourage any kind of in depth discussion so
effectively by design. The notes feature is the closest thing it has to
an actual writing-based feature, and even that is hidden
John wrote:
I agree with most of what you say, but I just haven't felt like
starting any discussions on this list recently. The two main things
that I have previously been interested in discussing here are SF and
politics. From my point of view, the current political situation in
the US is a
