Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Zefram
Jonathan Fry wrote: If finding officers is such an issue (and I'm probably not going to consent to the above), would it be time to consider automating some of these processes? Historically, many officeholders have used some degree of automation. I think a better way of putting what you're aiming

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Quazie
On 4/3/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Fry wrote: If finding officers is such an issue (and I'm probably not going to consent to the above), would it be time to consider automating some of these processes? Historically, many officeholders have used some degree of automation. I

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Zefram
Quazie wrote: Unless the automated sites e-mailed a properly formated proposal to the forum. Thus keeping both an updated archive and an automated system. No, this still means there's no archive of what the submitter actually submitted. There's only a record of what the automaton perceived. The

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Zefram
Jonathan Fry wrote: How do you know that a message sent by the mailing lists is actually what was typed in by the user? Simple: the user objects if it is not. It helps that mail transmission is a very standardised and reliable service. I do not believe we have had even a single instance of a

BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
Zefram wrote: I suggest that if you want to manage the proposal pool largely automatically then the automaton should accept submissions via email. You just need to announce I prefer to receive proposal submissions in this format: ..., and program the automaton to parse email messages that

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Ed Murphy
Maud wrote: On 4/3/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to make Maud Herald by Agoran Consent. You're doing this for the pun, aren't you? What pun? Now if your nickname was Lloyd...

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Changing officers

2007-04-03 Thread Levi Stephen
I think it's very possible that our low level of user friendliness is what is keeping us from drawing in and keeping new players. That agora is played over email is one of the reasons I like it. That might just be me however. I like the simplicity that email presents (rather than having to