I agree. Microformats are very organic at the moment and I think
making more lists to discuss it would have the effect of braking up
the community. Discussing on one list allows me to see what's going
on as a whole and though one microformat might not suit my needs its
good to see what's
I'm someone who signed up to this list yesterday as a newbie. I would
rather have one list to look through, I can easily sift entries that
are not relevant to me, but the sifting process also raises my
awareness of topics and nuances of debate within the community. I do
not want to be
I agree. Creating a list for each proposal seems unmanageable and
would result in a lot of dead lists eventually.
I imagine that there'd still be one or two main lists and the others
might have bursts of activity, but mostly they'd just sit around
empty. Given the overheads for both admins and
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If we want new people [1] to come and participate then that's a lot to
ask then to take on board, at the beginning.
I'd expect
Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal [plain
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If we want new people [1] to come and participate then that's a lot to
ask then to take on board, at the beginning.
I'd expect that if someone was keen enough to be joining this list
they could probably
I'd expect that if someone was keen enough to be joining this list
they could probably pick up the concept pretty quickly.
It's the people who are *not* keen enough to be joining this list who we
need to consider.
I'm not totally convinced about that ;) It's hard enough for keen
people to find
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King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
The problem is that the current Microformat process is not at all
scalable.
You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D
And you imply
On 11/15/06, Bob Jonkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm all in favour of integrating forums and mailing lists. A message or post
is just a block
of data to be stored in a database. Data is entered or extracted either by
e-mail or a
browser, or a news client, or an IRC client, or a Wiki, or
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett
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King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
The problem is that the current Microformat process is not at all
scalable.
You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D
And you imply that we do not. Can you
I'm a bit late, but do want to add my bit to the mailing list debate..
This is what was said about Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate [...]
If people want to filter things out, or draw particular attention to a
thread being related to a specific proposal, using the [hCard]
notation (for
To: Microformats Discuss
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal
On Nov 2, 2006, at 5:37 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
I'm going to reply to several responses at once.
Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once it's
reached a certain stage?
Ryan King Because
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ryan
King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
The problem is that the current Microformat process is not at all
scalable.
You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D
And you imply that we do not. Can you explain your reasoning, please,
including your definition of we?
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On 11/7/06 9:59 AM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D However, those
solutions are against the grain of microformats.
They'd no longer be simple, they'd no longer work together. There
would
On 11/7/06 12:16 PM, Mike Schinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is nothing in what I'm envisioning or proposing that would make them
theoretical. I would just like to address more areas that it appears you
want to address.
Per the microformats process, you may begin researching real world
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Benjamin West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
If people want to filter things out, or draw particular attention to a
thread being related to a specific proposal, using the [hCard]
notation (for example) works quite well in the subject field.
I concur. Filtering
Wow. This thread spiraled into nowhere land quickly.
I mean, once you're into personal preferences, you know that you're
never going to win. Some prefer email, some forums, some RSS -- hell
-- it's just the *display* of data. Thank g*d we separated those two a
long time ago so that people can
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On 11/3/06, Benjamin West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If people want to filter things out, or draw particular
Colin:
I'm going to reply to you point for point because, frankly after reading
your reply I felt like you were dredging up excuses, not reasons and I just
feel compelled to challege your assertions.
To the rest of you, please feel free it ignore the rest of my email if you
would rather not be
Of Chris
Messina
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:44 AM
To: Microformats Discuss
Subject: Re: Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal
Wow. This thread spiraled into nowhere land quickly.
I mean, once you're into personal preferences, you know that you're never
going to win. Some
I'm going to reply to several responses at once.
Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once it's
reached a certain stage?
Ryan King Because that's more administrative overhead for
Ryan King admin's who're already overloaded.
The problem is that the current Microformat process
If people want to filter things out, or draw particular attention to a
thread being related to a specific proposal, using the [hCard]
notation (for example) works quite well in the subject field.
I concur. Filtering features are well supported on many of the mail
clients I've seen, and a
On 11/1/06, John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Colin,
I don't like forums because I have to go to a website to use them.
RSS anyone :-) I love my forum changes popping up in my feedreader.
Compared with older, non RSS based forums, it has definitely made a
world of difference.
--- we
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott
Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Nov 1, 2006, at 5:48 AM, Brian Suda wrote:
we talked awhile ago how to get this Mailing list via RSS
Depending on your feed reader you could filter by topic/keyword etc.
As for how to reply, people can subscribe to the
Andy,
On 01/11/2006, at 9:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
That may be technically possible, but it's not going to appeal to the
people I referred to in my earlier post:
For example, several academic and professional taxonomists
have
told me in e-mail that they would be
Colin,
I don't like forums because I have to go to a website to use them.
RSS anyone :-) I love my forum changes popping up in my feedreader.
Compared with older, non RSS based forums, it has definitely made a
world of difference.
I'd much rather work from my email client, which has a
On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once it's
reached a certain stage?
Because that's more administrative overhead for admin's who're
already overloaded.
-ryan
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ryan
King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once it's
reached a certain stage?
Because that's more administrative overhead for admin's who're already
Andy Mabbett Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once
it's reached a certain stage?
I tend to really like this proposal. I've been thinking about if and how
Microformats can evolve and grow.
I can see Microformats being potentially much larger helping to create tags
in many
Hello,
It's too bad we can't tag e-mail messages. That way your colleagues
could filter this mailing list and only get the messages they want.
(Perhaps we need a nanoformat... for plain text e-mail... like the
ones someone here was working on for SMS messages, I think.)
See ya
On 10/24/06,
It's too bad we can't tag e-mail messages. That way your colleagues
could filter this mailing list and only get the messages they want.
Don't we already employ a sort of tagging through use of square
brackets? [uf-discuss] seems like a tag to me. Followed by [hcard] or
[species] would tag
Hello Benjamin,
Good point!
And if people complained about too many of these tags (in the subject
line). And not being able to read the real subject, then you could
just stick all your tags at the end of the subject.
As in...
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-discuss] Mailing list debate moved new proposal [plain
text] [tagging] [e-mail]
If we want new people [1] to come and participate then that's a lot to
ask then to take on board, at the beginning.
[1] do we?
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