On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:53:02 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 09:27:59 EDT > Bill Sconce said: > > >(Is a message board at all like a wiki?) > > You know, this whole wiki thing is one of those areas that I just > don't get. Bruce has shown us Twiki at a MELBA meeting, I've poked > around on our wiki that Bruce has set up, and a few others, and I > *still* don't get it.
I'm sorry if my suggestion inadvertently added more heat than light. The original poster was asking about tools which would fulfill a need of his, a need which was not completely laid out for us. (Wikis are most valuable as collaborative-teamwork tools, if I understand correctly.) For what it's worth, *I* don't get message boards. Several other groups(*) I'm involved with have tried to set up message boards, or message-board-like facilities, in the past few months; the ensuing dialogue in each case was suggestive of a solution in search of a problem. I'm not attacking message boards; I just don't understand them. -Bill (*) International Aerobatic Club; Nashua Area Radio Club; Libranet Users' Group; Linux Weekly News; varying efforts from March 2002 to the present. Sometimes (e.g., Libranet) the effort seemed to spring from a hacker's well-meaning desire to mess around with something fun; once (IAC) evidence quickly appeared which implied that advertisers had convinced club HQ to provide a platform for hawking commercial wares to the membership. (The latter was quickly pulled amid a firestorm of protest, with considerable embarrassment to HQ.) ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
