On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:49:29 -0000 "Rich C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Message boards are like news servers. The advantage of message boards is > that you can set one up on a server you don't have control of... Ah ha. (Perhaps the light dawns.) Thank you, Rich, and I hope at least one other list member gained illumination from your answer. So, if I'm on the right track, Linux Weekly News (and /daily) is a kind of message board - and a damned good, high-content one at all times. Slashdot is a message board - and a damned good one some times. (And a wiki, although a related animal, lives in a very different problem space.) One parameter would seem to be who does the managing and/or moderation. LWN, for instance, requires a LOT of staff time - it's no exaggeration to call LWN an example of professional, on-line journalism, with real reporting, editing, and production. Density of worthwhile content would seem to depend on quality of moderation, then, whether newsgroup, mailing list, or message board(*). Right? (A wiki is by definition essentially unmoderated - it's designed for a community whose members trust each other for quality. Again, the example is workgroup collaboration, I think.) Thanks - Bill (*) This was the downfall of some of the examples I mentioned in my earlier post. It seems to be an always recurring, and always unfulfilled, hope that some clever mechanical device will yield high quality content without human effort. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
