Peter: > In my limited understanding both AltME and IOS provide full offline > viewing but neither allows offline messages to be created and stored > for later uploading. This is a problem for people with infrequent or > pay-as-you-use internet access.
They also tend to be used for private information exchange rather than public. There is a danger that the REBOL community will retreat into a high-walled enclave and be all but invisible to the outside world. Of course if anyone finds us and climbs the barriers (Altme -- a low barrier; or IOS a much higher one), we'd be highly welcoming. But we probably wouldn't have to worry about that happening very often. The ML is indexed on Google and other search engines, and messages on it appear high up in search engine pages for a wide range of (sometimes surprising) phrases. It is possible to export Altme groups to make them available on the web. That is done with the View 1.3 project, eg: http://www.rebol.net/projects/view1.3/chat167.html But it is hard to mine much useful information by reading what was mainly real-time chat. The valuable resources are in the bug tracker and checklists, and they are not web-published. This is not to say that an email mailing list doesn't have its problems too. Just that it is a serious tool for communicating; and that until its strengths are replicated in other media, doing away with it would be premature. Sunanda. -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
