In reference to the short discussion on whether Manifold is as good
as they say:
"Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc." wrote:
> Note: this sort of disturbs me (and still I like it) that we discuss other GIS's and
>any topic actually on this MI-list... I just know arcview-l is moderated--they've
>turned down a few of my innocuous queries about intl data--but to add to the
>discussion regarding MI's marketing (I noticed several posts regarding their
>education sector efforts) couldn't MI pony up to allow BT or anyone to sift through
>stuff? at least we would not be a prime deliver of KAK...(pun intended)
As everybody here knows, MapInfo-L is a very open forum--some would
say it's too open, but I kind of like that aspect too. To my mind,
the horizon of my the GIS sphere doesn't end with MapInfo, and
learning of a few seemingly unrelated things seems to broaden my
view.
However, MapInfo-L isn't GIS-L or GISlist, and perhaps we need to
remind ourselves occasionally that it's main focus is MapInfo.
General GIS comments or questions probably ought to go to those
other lists first. I'd prefer to leave that as a guideline rather
than a rule, because I wouldn't want to be a censor, or suffer
anyone else's permission to post whatever I'd like to post.
Sometimes a serendipitous posting generates a very welcome but
unexpected line of thought.
Of course, a nicer and more positive term for censor would be
"editor." An editor would ensure that what makes it into the email
stream would be clean (no virus or spam) mail, summarized responses,
HTML format-free and attachment-stripped messages. The topics would
be limited to what that edited forum lists as relevant. Anyone could
post to the forum too, but whether their message just passes through
to the origin forum(s), or gets rejected, or gets included in the
edited feed depends on how closely they follow the forum's
guidelines.
Think of it as a managed portfolio of email. One focus might be
MapInfo-not-Programming, or another might be
MapInfo-with-significant-GIS-events. Still another might be
MapInfo-and-competition-wireless, or something like that. The
success of a edited forum would depend on a good set of email
management tools and of course, a good editor, who might be any one
of you with the ability and interest.
This wouldn't be a free thing; either advertising pays for it or
subscribers do. I know from experience that it's a lot of work when
you try to deliver that sort of service. But would something like
this be worth anything to readers?
- Bill Thoen
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