I personally am of the opinion that REBOL needs all of the before mentioned forms of support. AltMe for those of us who like the IM/Chat style communication, Mail List for those who are stuck in their email clients and a forum for a quick and easy way to check out REBOL's strengths and weaknesses without having to download or install anything. Each has its merits and its own userbase. Getting a forum going and keeping it going is simply going to depend on two things, how good its master is (how stable it is) and how good the gurus who frequent it are. I say we can't go wrong in getting a good forum up and going. Perhaps last time it was tried there simply weren't enough ppl into REBOL who like the Forum style interface or perhaps it wasn't stable enough or maybe a little of each.
FWIW ~~Ammon ;-> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Tretter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:39 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Forum Name > > Well on second thought, I suppose Altme is not the best solution either. > What we need is a cross between the two - the strength of the Altme is its > realtime action - where we can see whos logged on and we need the strength > of the forum where we can moderate it so that there is archive searchable > database with sticky threads at the top of the list for newbies to find > quick access to help. > > Paul Tretter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Cunliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:08 PM > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Forum Name > > > > > > > > Yeah I agree. I wouldn't want to fracture the community much more at > > this > > > > point. I do think Altme serves a great purpose. > > > > > > Problem with AltMe is it nature - it is great when comes to (rather > small > > > IMO) group cooperation in making something - but fails, when someone > new > > > comes in. > > > No archive - and even archive is provided, it will be one-long page to > > > dig-in. > > > > I agree. AltME is good for live relatively intimate discussions, when one > > is keeping up daily, and swimming energetically in the stream. But its > > structure, archive interface, import/export, formatting, linking and any > > modern re-usable google access leave much to be desired. > > > > If it were openSource then it would be much easier for REbolers to > > contribute to its developement. Kind of ironic since AltME is 'free', and > > that precisely this sort of fast extensibility is one of the jopbs Rebol > is > > supposed to be good at. > > > > - Jason > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.553 / Virus Database: 345 - Release Date: 12/18/2003 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
