On 9 Feb 01, at 10:22, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> I've more or less come to the conclusion that the discussion list via email
> is a bad technology. It's just until recently, there really weren't better
> technologies -- and if all you have are hammers, everything looks like a
> nail.
Could you elaborate? I've stated that opinion several times on this
forum [that emails aren't good for 'discussion forums'], but I've
always thought [then and now] that usenet-technology was really quite
good --- you can run a private [even password-protected] server and
run forums using tried-and-true 'news' technology and, IMO, have a
quite effective forum.
But usenet doesn't qualify as "until recently", and so I'm perplexed.
I thought I"ve been following these sorts of thing and I certainly
haven't seen anything even better than mailing lists, much less
better than news, for discussion forums. The only slightly-new
technologies I've seen are various sorts of web-based
discussion/thread/message systems, but every one I've seen [or tried
to use] has been invariably awful and cumbersome, so I doubt that
that's what you had it mind. Was it? Or is there some other,
better, forum-mediation machinery out there that I don't know
about... [NB: to emphasize, this is for wide-participation
discussion forums; obviously, other sorts of forums can/probablywill
be better served by different technologies].
/Bernie\
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