Jonathan, Dave H and I discussed that a few weeks back. You're absolutely right that it's technically feasible -- I set up something like that for the first anthology committee. For now, we all agreed that it would dilute attention. As an expedient, I'm feeding recent posts to this list to the website, where they're displayed, and from which you can link to the Groups page to sign up (look at the website's home page for one feed).
Also, the information architecture of the website is already screaming. I'm loathe to shoehorn another thing into it until we get the information architecture revamped and preferably get a redesign done. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jamie Kress <[email protected]>wrote: > Can't a discussion board be added to the R-Spec page? I know other sites > do this and have both open and members only areas. I believe these can also > be set up so that you can get emailes and respond the same way, so for those > that don't want another site it wouldn't cahnge much. And it might even get > more interest going in R-Spec if casual web browsers could participate in > these discussions. > > Writing is a very weird profession: you have to do all the work long before > you find out if you'll ever get paid. --Allan Rousselle > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:11:40 -0400 > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: threads by email > > > I much prefer e-mail threads over using Facebook, and I do use Facebook. > Having these discussions in the R-Spec group is probably the only way > they'll reach me, since I do not like to add yet another place to go to find > threads. Keeping track of a family of e-mail addresses and various groups > is enough work already. > > Dana > > > On 5/12/2010 4:02 PM, Eric Scoles wrote: > > As far as I'm concerned, Facebook is an absolutely horrible medium for > carrying on discussions, through wall postings, forums or otherwise. I much > prefer email. Email comes to the place I tell it to come -- all of it lands > in the same place, and I can deal with it (or not) in the same place as all > the other stuff I do. To my way of thinking, it's actually a far better > means of carrying on discussions than Facebook would be. > > Plus, it would be a totally different group of people, unless we got > everyone on this list to go sign up for Facebook. I personally wouldn't > recommend that anyone get involved in Facebook at this point unless they had > a compelling reason to do so, so I would personally not sign up for any > course of action that placed an onus upon people to sign up for Facebook. > > Google Groups allows you to deal with the email through a web interface or > through email, It's pretty much a clone of Yahoo Groups in that regard. We > have some participants who have Google accounts and some who don't. If we > did this through Facebook, everyone would have to have a facebook account > and you'd all have to deal with the group via Facebook. > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:54 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I agree... especially since some of us use email for work as well > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Duane Parsons" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 3:51 pm > Subject: threads by email > To: <[email protected]> > > It would seem to me that attempting to carry on discussions and/or develop > a discussion thread by email is exceedingly awkward. Since R-Spec has an FB > page would it not be more practical to simply let memebers post thread > topics for discussion on the FB page and then other may participate as much > or as little as they wish? > > > This is simply a suggestion but I presonally am baffled as to why the FB > page had no discussion threads while - conversely - I open up my emai;l and > have dozens of emails,all containnig what appears to be fragments of various > R-Spec discussions being carried on my email. > > > Cordially, > > > Duane > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > ------------------------------ > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get > started.<http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
