Jeff,
You mention:
> Welp, I sincerely hope this energy spewing forth about
> rebol.org is a signal of people eager to make the site
> better.
I can assure you of no less from me!
> A couple times before I've BEGGED people to help rebol.org
> and the silence was amazing.
Alas, your pleas could not be heard while stashed away in that mysterious
archive.
> Sterling and I, along with
> Andrew Grossman have been the creators of the scripts there
> when time allowed, which is less and less all the time. We
> wanted to get something up there that mostly ran, that
> soaked up scripts, and provided a threaded mailing list
> archive. We weren't even asked to do it by Carl or anyone
> else in the company. We just felt someone had to get that
> ball rolling so we did it after hours. There's certainly
> kinks in those scripts, and forget about the low budget
> appearance of the site. But it's there and it generally
> works. There's more than 110 scripts in the site, and the
> mailing list has thousands of messages processed and
> archived.
You guys have nothing to be ashamed of. Your efforts are much appreciated
and are to be highly commended. I still don't understand why you need two
different web sites. Why can't the user community and REBOL Tech work as
one, and have one presence. The work will still get done, volunteers will
still be available.
> Imagine yourself maintaining the flagship website of the
> REBOL community! The site is a well run linux box with
> REBOL cgi, as well as most all other unix utilities you'd
> expect.
Here's where I want to make my first contribution. And, it is to rebol.com
and not to rebol.org. On the page where one subscribes to the email list,
http://www.rebol.com/support.html, I'd like to place information stating the
availability of the mailing list archive and a link taking one directly
there.
Next, I'd like to work on making rebol.com searchable such that one can
easily find words and phrases in articles, scripts, documentation, and the
mailing list archive at rebol.com and rebol.org.
I'd also like to make it such that unsubscribers from the mailing list don't
have to send a post to this list, since they subscribe in privacy, why can't
they unsubscribe in privacy. I know of no other mailing list that does this.
And, of course, I'd like to work on making the full mailing list archive
accessible on the web.
Hope this helps for starters,
Cheryl
