Sounds like it is getting close to zero. You wouldn't be able to post via email if you did the proposed, unless you designed and developed something like a plugin for each and everyones preferred email client like FF's greasemonkey. You might drive more traffic to your domain; but, I think you'd lose more than you'd gain. Unless that traffic is of value to the open source community.
Anyways to support your site centric solution I'd say upon post you'd have to click on your subject(s) before submitting and you know the rest some tabs that reflected the IA... I've always wondered why when sending to the discussion list email the [action] discussion isn't automatically appended to the subject line. Why else would I be posting, it seems like the least common denominator. Make the solicitors go to the site to solicit not the members. The email post get the appendage and the system handles the solicitors. Capice? I could do without the job and event stuff myself. No need to respond. I get it. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Elizabeth Bacon <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, > > So here's my take on IA and IxD, and it's a unifying one that I > think represents more of the majority opinion. Of course, pipe up if > you think I'm wrong. :) > > Information Architecture looks through the lens of product design > with a focus on structure, on the "space" side of the space-time > continuum. Interaction Design looks through the lens of product > design with a focus on behavior, on the "time" side of the > space-time continuum. We are sister disciplines when operating in the > digital realm, absolutely. If there's silicon, there's near-infinite > complexity to mold into order. The object, the structure, the > information cannot be useful without its purpose, the behavior, the > interaction. So stop any unproductive bickering and recognize that > yet again, your perspective on the issue comes from your own personal > context and "consensus" is impossible but clarification is. Polite, > respectful clarification. > > As far as working together, I have a practical question for the group > coming from my capacity as director of the Conan project. What would > people think of soon splitting the IxDA Discussion into various > sub-forums, to which you could subscribe/publish/observe etc.? > Specifically, one of which could be "Information Architecture". > Other potential discussions would be Local Groups and Jobs and > someday Events, as well. In the case of an "IA" discussion forum, > this could be a place where a typical IxD practitioner with just > surface knowledge of IA methods could ask questions and get expert > responses. We have some of IA's leading lights in our community, > after all. Constructive or unhelpful? I get worried about subdividing > the conversation on nearly un-definable grounds; like, IxDA would > never want a stand-alone"Prototyping" forum...or would we? Thanks > for your thoughts about IxDA IA... ;) > > Cheers, > Liz > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40789 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
