[REBOL] What about a REBOL newsgroup Re:
- 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
[REBOL] What about a REBOL newsgroup Re(2):
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
[REBOL] What about a REBOL newsgroup Re:
I dont care either way. What I would like to know is if you ever get paid with that notice at the bottom of your email? --Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 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. Felix Pütsch -- http://puetsch.tsx.org UBE/UCE mails to any of my addresses are definitely not allowed. Sending such mails to my addresses constitutes an agreement of the sender and/or responsible but non cooperating provider to pay me a downloading, pro- cessing and archiving fee of US$ 500,00.
