I have long been an advocate of user groups and discussion boards over mailing lists. I have spent a good part of my career studying and working in the field of online community and collaboration.

I'm in the process of opening a new site, as many of you know, to support my forthcoming three-eBook set on Revolution. It will be going live within another two weeks or so. I plan to ask RunRev at that point for permission to reflect this list into the discussion board. That would enable us to have the best of both worlds. The technology I'm using to build my discussion board and supporting site stuff is a combination of Hemingway (Chipp Walters' brilliant CMS) and Web Crossing (http://www.webcrossing.com). Web Crossing allows us to have discussions that you can not only subscribe to by email but participate in entirely through email using an NNTP (news) client if you prefer to participate that way.

The only thing that doesn't give us that I've seen a request for here is for the board to be hosted at RunRev. I'm not sure why that would be important, but I'm even open to that idea if it is really desirable.

My plan leaves this list in tact but allows you to view it in a discussion board context, participate via either the board or email, receive notification of updates (single or digest mode) via email, and yet do things like upload files for people to look at, attach images to posts, etc.

I'd be interested in feedback on this idea, either here or off-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Dan Shafer
Technology Visionary - Technology Assessment - Documentation
"Looking at technology from every angle"
http://www.eclecticity.com
Latest Book Release: "HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS" (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/css1/)
Watch for my new eBook/Web site/Rev Stack Set, "Revolution Pros" this summer


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