Hi Cheryl,
In all fairness, your complaints do not appear to be based on reality.
you wrote:
>Well, either that's what going on at rebol.org or the site must be under
>alien attack! It's funny you should mention wiki. Please explain what
>happened to the HTML source at http://www.rebol.org/web/wiki.html.
It's right there (as of right now).
>
>Most of your response would be useful to have in a "mission statement" or at
>least something to let visitors to rebol.org know what it's about and how
>they can contribute. It's interesting that you can go and modify wiki, but I
>see no information at the site telling me how I can do the same thing.
The Wiki source code can be downloaded. The HTML version can be viewed.
What's the problem?
>That
>is, why do you have certain access privileges to this site and I don't.
What is your argument here? Why on earth should you have the same access
privileges to the rebol.org site? Since when is it policy on the Internet
that every Web site visitor gets root privileges to Web sites he/she visits?
>Besides the script submission policy, I see no other way to make a
>contribution to help improve the site.
Submitting a script isn't bad.
You can always propose improvements (including offers to contribute HTML
etc.) to the feedback address at the bottom of the Web page.
>
>I believe that whoever maintained the mailing list last year did not
>understand its usefulness to the REBOL end user community.
Someone went through the trouble of setting up a mailing list archive.
1. He did not understand its usefulness?????????
2. Why lash out at whoever it was?
>This was proven
>last year when I and others asked where we could find an archived and
>searchable mailing list. Within two months of my initial request, we finally
>saw a searchable, web-based mailing list archive.
So, what! Gee, how long should it have taken? A mailing list arvhive is not
a Hamburger.
>In a recent posts, we have
>heard of people having problems with using the mailing list, indicating, at
>least to me, that it needs to be improved.
What problems? In what ways do you think it needs to be improved. If you're
interested in improvements, why not propose them?
>I, as well as others would like
>to see the mailing list go back further in time.
Ah, you're talking about the archive, not the mailing list. So much
complaining, for such a little point?
What's the point of storing old messages reporting problems in early
versions of REBOL? Problems that have been fixed?
>Who do we go to for this?
Again, why not use the feedback email address at the bottom of the
rebol.org homepage?
>Has anyone asked REBOL Technologies to take this over so that we can see a
>more professional search system implemented?
Why is REBOL Technologies responsible for the professional implementation
of a user based REBOL Web site?
Why not you?
>Just having a link on the
>rebol.com website to this mailing list makes good marketing sense.
They do.
>REBOL
>Technologies places at lot of articles by reporters praising REBOL on
>rebol.com, it should at the very least offer potential users the opportunity
>of seeing what "real users" of REBOL are saying and how they are using the
>programming language.
They maintain this mailing list including SELMA that runs it. You can
subscribe to this mailing list on their Web site. Give them a little credit.
;- Elan >> [: - )]
