Thanks for your hard work, Asheesh! F
~ ~ ~ thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog work / http://creativecommons.org sights / http://flickr.com/fcb sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis status / http://twitter.com/mecredis On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Asheesh Laroia <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Christina Ducruet wrote: > > Starting a new thread regarding the need for a Students for Free Culture >> forum where we can converse and build knowledge. >> >> I am a fan of bbPress >> > > Hi all, > > I'm going to do something I don't usually do: post to a thread before > reading all of it. Sorry about the delay in my response; lately I have a > three-ish day turnaround for mailing list email. > > SUMMARY: I'm working on this, and I have a beta of a forum ready, and I'll > announce it within 24 hours. It will mirror this list; posts on the forum > will be received by list subscribers, and posts on the list can be read on > the forum. > > ELONGATION: > > I'm setting up a forum now that mirrors fc-discuss. Until we theme it, it > won't be super pretty, and I apologize for that. But FUDForum is the only > forum package I have seen that has built-in support for mirroring a mailing > list, and I am really not very interested in separating the discuss > community. (We will work on theming it, but I admit we may unleash it on > y'all before we do theme it.) > > I have a beta set up already, and within 24 hours I'll say it's ready for > public use, and have read this thread and respond to all y'all's feedback. I > have my own feelings about mailing lists and forums. > > I think there's a crucial divide between two sorts of people: > > Some people are comfortable handling lots of email (or pretend they are), > and some people are not. > > The latter prefer web forums; the former (claim to or really do) prefer > mailing lists. I'm in the camp that prefers email. People in my camp will > say things like, "Fix your mailer — it sends out HTML mail!", or "Comply > with the MIME standards!" or "Get a real mailer that supports threading > properly!" This last one is interesting; we're trying to help people by > saying, "If you use the threading feature of your email program, your life > can be easier." > > One reason people like me say things like that is we're nerds who believe > that many, many problems in society can be solved with the right software. > To a large extent we're right. > > <snark>But life is too short to teach you all how to use email.</snark> I > say, fine. You guys who don't want to do this by email can do it by a web > forum. I have respect for the fact that we all have a lot to do. I can > accommodate that by offering a web forum that mirrors this list. > > If many of you unsubscribe from the mailing list and just read this > FC-Discuss community via a web forum, I'm fine with that. Enjoy this content > however you want; if you don't like email, I'm not going to bother trying to > change that. > > I'm not currently interested in splitting this community, however. Those > who prefer web forums to email should be able to communicate with people who > don't. > > (To help me get it done even faster than 24 hours I'm going to send out a > request for help to the webteam@ list right now.) > > Yours truly, > > -- Asheesh. > > P.S. I will soon write up a similar rant about why I think Reply-To munging > is more helpful than harmful. > > -- > Q: How many Harvard MBA's does it take to screw in a light bulb? > A: Just one. He grasps it firmly and the universe revolves around > him. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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