Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-10-01 Thread Richmond
"I was raised with a computer, with facebook for my friends and google as my study guide." That, presumably, makes you aged between 16 and 21 . . . Not all of us feel 100% comfortable with Google's octopus-like grip on various things. Nor, for that matter, do we see Facebook as the

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 09/30/2016 03:12 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: but I'm not sure if they're active - anyone have a URL for those? Ah - there's the rub. For anything not maintained by the mothership, you have to know where it is in order to find it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 09/30/2016 06:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Nabble has been mentioned if you need to search. There's a duplicate archive at Gmane as well, with a slightly different interface: Sorry, Gmane's been gone for a while now. Had a better UI

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/30/16 2:53 PM, William Jamieson wrote: I don't really understand the use-list's format It isn't hard. Filter the emails into a folder in your email client, or subscribe to the digest instead if you only want a single (large-ish) email per day. The digest is a compilation of all posts in

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
No. Kind regards, Mark Schonewille http://economy-x-talk.com https://www.facebook.com/marksch Buy the most extensive book on the LiveCode language: http://livecodebeginner.economy-x-talk.com Op 30-Sep-16 om 21:53 schreef William Jamieson: I was raised with a computer, with facebook for my

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Peter M . Brigham
> On Sep 30, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > I get the inability to search the archive for n00bs. That's a problem. > For those of us who receive these messages in one of our google accounts, > it isn't a problem. In my case I have a hair under 13,000

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mike Kerner
With this gmail account, I also have a filter and a "label" set up, so all the livecode stuff ends up in one place, separated from the rest of the traffic. On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 6:45 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > I’m on my email several times a day. The

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I’m on my email several times a day. The first category I check are the postings from this listserve. It’s within my flow. When I go to the forum, I see a bunch of topics. I only go to any that I’m interested in and it’s pretty rare that I go there except for a topic I’m following. The

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread stephen barncard
Us old timers have been having this discussion for years.Some of us have been on the same kind of listserv since Apple ][ days. It seems to work. This list's success is directly related to it's serial nature. We're all in the same room, and we get exposed to a lot of things that would be

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread me
Ask a group on listserv if they want listserv, and what do you get? Listserv. Best, Jerry On Sep 30, 2016, 5:13 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin , wrote: > FWIW I don't see this as an XOR operation, but an AND. > > Some like the categorized, searchable forums. > > Others

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
FWIW I don't see this as an XOR operation, but an AND. Some like the categorized, searchable forums. Others like the continuum flow of this list, searchable in Nabble: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ Others like FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livecodeusers/ ...or G+:

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Peter M. Brigham
> On Sep 30, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > I get the inability to search the archive for n00bs. That's a problem. > For those of us who receive these messages in one of our google accounts, > it isn't a problem. In my case I have a hair under 13,000

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > Same here. -1 for Google Chat. I much prefer a listserv for the same > reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a > tool (email) that is in my face 24/7. > That. Listserves are in

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > Same here. -1 for Google Chat. I much prefer a listserv for the same > reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a > tool (email) that is in my face 24/7. > -- Dr. Richard E.

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mike Kerner
I get the inability to search the archive for n00bs. That's a problem. For those of us who receive these messages in one of our google accounts, it isn't a problem. In my case I have a hair under 13,000 threads that I have received since my arrival in the LC community. I wonder if Edinburgh has

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Skip Kimpel
Same here. -1 for Google Chat. I much prefer a listserv for the same reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a tool (email) that is in my face 24/7. SKIP On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Rebbe < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > Google

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Google Chat would be a NoGo for me. My mail app is opened all the day anyway, so the mailing list is the best solution for me. I know that the forum is also a good source of help and knowledge and i am trying to visit it as often as possible. Just today i installed an RSS reader to be up to

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I should certainly hope not. listserves and boards are fundamentally different in how people interact. Moving lists to web generally causes *massive* loss of membership and participation. In a professional organization I belong to, it resulted in an independent mailing list, and would likely

Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread William Jamieson
I was raised with a computer, with facebook for my friends and google as my study guide. I don't really understand the use-list's format and have only attempted to read it maybe 5 times in the 2 years I have been on it. Forums are great but still remind me of my childhood and are generally used