Hi everyone Noelene wrote:
> I'll agree with you Steph, I belong to one group on message > board software, and very seldom visit it. ..whereas I (bev) visit frequently two such boards, one for gardening, one a women's arts exchange, both fascinating, informative pleasant vehicles of discussion, with international subscribers, many whose first language isn't english. I guess we could debate pros and cons until bored - > Arachne's text only exchanges are far preferable for me, with pictures > shared via webshots. ..via *public* webshots - and best accessed if folks remember to put the link in their message. It isn't that I can't bookmark it and check it out - but that step makes it once removed from the message. > I want to talk to other lacemakers, not be held up with lots of pretty > logos and idiotic smiley faces. But that is the beauty of the message board - graphics can be used, and lacefully so, if it is 'our' group - as to the smileys, they *do* help convey emotion and intent, for instance, would probably have saved a lot of angst and discussion regarding the last such episode on chat, re the London bombinbs (for instance). The emoticons are easier to understand than ASCI smileys, which can easily be missed in a line of text, or misunderstood... > If an interesting topic comes up, I just create a sub folder under lace > or lace-chat, name it something relevant, and drag > any interesting messages into that for future reading or This works for those who can handle a lot of individual messages, and subscribe to the reflected list. For those of us having to process a lot ofmail, where subscribing to the digest is better, then message managing becomes a lot of cut and paste (no big deal, really - but no graphics either). and for what it's worth, I'll mention for me it is better to keep subscribing to arachne via my plain text server, and visit the message boards of my choice via the Windows interface. Somebody did set up such a message board for lace, here, called the Lace Forum (more for those in the state of Virginia) http://lace.jasidog.com/index.php?s=6719e4b1cacbbb5d5857ce4a1d52653d&act=idx and though I signed up, few else wanted to play - I believe there are other lace e-mail groups who use the board system, the arachne one is quite special, and I can envision a lace-topia, where the nature of arachne could transfer to the message board system for better accessibility to archives, graphics, topics re lace, topics re chat - that's all. Despite that it is a moot topic, I just thought I'd mention it ;) -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
