Quoting "Peter G. Viscarola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat 29 Dec 2007 11:04:56 AM PST:
>> >> Have no fear; we have made the decision to immediately move the >> development discussions off of this list and on to a Wiki for >> developers. >> > > With all due respect, a Wiki doesn't sound like the best idea. > > A Wiki will not allow the kind of back-and-forth discussion that a > mailing list will. Wikis are good for collecting and disseminating > information, but not for discussing or debating that information (even > in the "discussion" section of most Wikis). > > If you want to encourage vigorous discussion and diverse points of view, > a Wiki does not seem to me to be the best way to do that. > > de Peter K1PGV I agree. We use both at work, and the Wiki is great for documenting on the run in the lab and for a centralized point to dump documents, drawings, sketches, etc. But discussions are better done as multicontributor blogs or email lists. FWIW, email is nice because all the traffic is resident on your computer, and you don't need to be "connected" to read through it. Web based solutions require that webserver to be up (unless you store the website using something like CVS or SVN and do updates to a local repository). Recently, I've been using web mail clients a lot, and it's a royal pain. (By the way, if someone has a clever way to put conditional links in html, I'd like to know about it. I have a bunch of copies of various and sundry technical journal articles summarized on webpages, and if *I* am looking at it, I'd like to be able to link right to the pdf (on my local computer), but if someone else is looking at it, I'd like the link to disappear. I suppose in a perfect world, there would be a unique never changing item identifier (URL) for all technical papers that you could use, and your browser would look in it's local repository before trying to fetch from outside.} Jim, W6RMK _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
