Hi, I tried setting up a newsgroup for rebol, but in the end I gave up. There is a lot of work to do, and the support has to be there. When I first got into the "yeah, let's have a newsgroup" vibe, it sounded like a great idea. Then quite a few people wrote who were upset about the idea. I persisted, thinking that more is better. I did many hours of work, reading documents, emails etc. I gave up when I didn't think that I could rally up enough votes to create the newsgroup. (I also got really busy with school, and my *crappy* dialup connection was driving me to despair....) That was last year... I think we just need to make a web-accessible database of emails with nice searching, threading etc. If it hasn't already been done... Anton. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Felix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 11:50 PM > Subject: [REBOL] What about a REBOL newsgroup > > > Hi! > > > > I'd appreciate the idea of a newsgroup instead of a mailing list. > > This has several advantages: > > > > * clearer threading > > * easier to search for previous articles > > * no hundreds of mails in the mailbox > > * determining whether or not to read postings at a glance > > > I actually find email is much easier to search and archive than news groups, > and there is no spam on the mailinglist! You just need an email client with > good filters and search facilities. > > But if you want to avoid email clutter then you can use, this link to read > the threads from this list. > > http://www.rebol.org/userlist/html/index.html > > I know it will happen one day, that a newsgroup starts up as volume gets > large and a lot of people are posting, but currently we have a nice > community here in the mailing list. I would imagine that a lot of key people > would stay here and not even look at the newsgroups, as newgroups tend to > have poor signal to noise ratio. The commitment of joining a mailing list > seems to sort out a lot of chaff. > > > What about comp.lang.rebol? Later there could be even > > comp.lang.rebol.misc > > comp.lang.rebol.core > > comp.lang.rebol.view > > comp.lang.rebol.command > > > > etc. > > There are currently mail lists for these too. I'm not against newsgroups, I > just don't feel there is enough volume to justify one yet, versus the > benefits we have here. > > just my 2c (and we don't even have them in our money anymore!) > > Allen K
