Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-20 Thread Asa Rossoff
Instant communication isn't always on the top of my list! I'm just getting caught up in this thread and it's the end of my day today, so I'll reply to this message as it's the last one I read :) -Original Message- From: Kostas Jakeliunas Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:27 AM Totally out

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-20 Thread Asa Rossoff
I'm killing this thread. It's moved beyond all usefulness and people are complaining about it to me. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 [A. R.] now read. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 05:22:26PM +, adrelanos wrote: At the moment most techies just don't believe or can't imagine that anyone has more difficulties using a mailing list compared to a forum. I very much doubt that. It's just that mailing lists/IRC work well for us, and browser-based

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-19 Thread andrew
I'm killing this thread. It's moved beyond all usefulness and people are complaining about it to me. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org

[tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-19 Thread Cat S
Hi Andrew, I'm killing this thread. It's moved beyond all usefulness and people are complaining about it to me. --  Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-19 Thread Warren Michelsen
On Jun 18, 2013, at 9:02 PM, Cat S wrote: Hi Warren, It's now clear to me you're a troll, or at least very dense and obtuse. sigh And you are irrational. If you're so new to Tor, why don't you build up some cred before telling me what to do? I have not told you what to do. I have

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-19 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: 1. Why is it you didn't answer my main question, that I and others have asked (in and out of my thread): Where did the money go that was earmarked for the forum? please answer that question specifically. The money

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
Totally out of the blue, but if there were a forum which also had a simple way of subscribing to threads and sub-forums so that one could receive emails and *respond* by replying to the special email address used for relaying them the message, would that be something worth considering? (Perhaps

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 18.06.2013 10:27, Kostas Jakeliunas wrote: Totally out of the blue, but if there were a forum which also had a simple way of subscribing to threads and sub-forums so that one could receive emails and *respond* by replying to the special email address used for relaying them the message,

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:51:05PM -0700, Cat S wrote: 2. This e-mail you wrote only very recently appeared in my Yahoo! inbox, and I refresh every couple of minutes. Your second e-mail that's up on Tor Talk hasn't even arrived in my inbox yet. That's why I'm so pissed that Tor deiced to

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Alexandre Guillioud
Hi all, I must agree with that... Install a fucking web forum !! It's worth 1 to 10 hours of work... !!! 2013/6/18 Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com Hi all, This mailing-list is a stupid fucking joke, well, at least for those of us who aren't techies. Really, this is stupid, you're not allowing

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:36:50 +0200 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Why not FB or G+, or whatever. Well for one, because it will be kind of hilarious when you won't be able to use the Tor forum/group/circle/whatever _via Tor_. Google already does hassle Tor users with their constant captchas

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:24:58PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:36:50 +0200 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Why not FB or G+, or whatever. Well for one, because it will be kind of hilarious when you won't be able to use the Tor forum/group/circle/whatever _via

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Warren Michelsen
On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: This mailing-list is a stupid fucking joke, well, at least for those of us who aren't techies. Really, this is stupid, you're not allowing a lot of people to community by using this Ivory tower mailing-list crap. Personally,

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread adrelanos
Warren Michelsen: On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: This mailing-list is a stupid fucking joke, well, at least for those of us who aren't techies. Really, this is stupid, you're not allowing a lot of people to community by using this Ivory tower mailing-list

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread adrelanos
Kostas Jakeliunas: Totally out of the blue, but if there were a forum which also had a simple way of subscribing to threads and sub-forums so that one could receive emails and *respond* by replying to the special email address used for relaying them the message, would that be something worth

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Kostas Jakeliunas
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:08 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: [...] AFAIK, there's no such solution at present, at least for something which would effectively implement a mailing list allowing for active participation and even moderation from the email side of things. But it

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Low-Key²
- Original Message - From: Warren Michelsen war...@mdcclxxvi.us I'm not sure where you're coming from. Why can't non-techies use email?!? How is this mailing list preventing a lot of people from communicating? Thank you.  I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this allegation is

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Warren, From: Warren Michelsen war...@mdcclxxvi.us To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread adrelanos
Cat S: I don't want to re-hash _years_ old debates, please read the bug report links and other links I posted to old tor-talk threads. That will explain why I and many others feel there should be an official Tor forum. TL;DR: Newbs won't use mailing-lists; mailing-lists are a entry barrier

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Kai Childheart
Speaking of which...how does one 'quit' said mailing list? On 18 June 2013 01:14, Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, This mailing-list is a stupid fucking joke, well, at least for those of us who aren't techies. Really, this is stupid, you're not allowing a lot of people to

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Low-Key^2, From: Low-Key² cryptic...@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE - Original Message - From: Warren Michelsen

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi adrelanos, From: adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE Cat S: I don't want to re-hash

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Kai, From: Kai Childheart kai.childheartl...@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE Speaking of which...how

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Warren Michelsen
On Jun 18, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Cat S wrote: I don't want to re-hash _years_ old debates, please read the bug report links and other links I posted to old tor-talk threads. Bug reports? Email bug reports? Tor bug reports? That will explain why I and many others feel there should be an

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread krishna e bera
Why dont we encourage the fellow who is doing a serious usability study on Tor software to apply his expertise to this topic since it affects Tor users? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread David Vorick
I can only speak for myself, but I stayed away from mailing lists when I was a 'newb' because they seemed strange and technical. This is also back at a time when I did not use email very often. I think that how much you use email is closely related to how much you like mailing lists. As someone

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread adrelanos
krishna e bera: Why dont we encourage the fellow who is doing a serious usability study on Tor software to apply his expertise to this topic since it affects Tor users? Good idea. Can you write a friendly mail please and add cc here? ___ tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Low-Key²
- Original Message - From: Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com In this case I think the grandma test is in order. That is, can a grandmother easily use the tor-talk mailing-list to get help with Tor? Both my parents are grandparents and would qualify as technologically inept.  These

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Warren, From: Warren Michelsen war...@mdcclxxvi.us To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE On Jun 18, 2013, at 9:47 AM,

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi krishna, From: adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE krishna e bera: Why dont we

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi David, From: David Vorick david.vor...@gmail.com To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE I

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Webmaster
On a side note. Your email title quote That evey1 can useI think thats is a great goal..but may never be achievable. Your asking for a process which everyone can use. Where everyone is comfortable. Being as some people prefer email over forums, and some forums over email.. as well as

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Low-Key^2 From: Low-Key² cryptic...@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE - Original Message - From: Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com In

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread mirimir
On 06/18/2013 04:01 PM, adrelanos wrote: SNIP In a forum, its contents advertise itself and they get well indexed by search engines. Things are sorted by topics. For a mailing list you have to click on archives to see if people are using it at all and about what kind of topics they are

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Webmaster
Hello, Id like to add to this discussion as a personal aside. When I started using Tor I was a newb as it were, with computers. The few things I knew about the internet was Email and Google. Thats all I needed. When I went looking for information on TOR the first place I ended up was the

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread mirimir
On 06/18/2013 05:35 PM, Kai Childheart wrote: Speaking of which...how does one 'quit' said mailing list? Back in the day, many mailing lists included unsubscribe links, or even brief instructions, in message footers. But some subscribers still asked how to quit ;) SNIP

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread mirimir
On 06/18/2013 06:40 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote: But do explain how email is a barrier to newbs. Imagine that you're a new Tor user, with a question that's not addressed on the Tor Project website. How would you search tor-talk archives? ___ tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Webmaster, From: Webmaster webmas...@felononline.info To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE On a side note.  Your email

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Webmaster
On 06/18/2013 05:42 PM, Cat S wrote: Hi Webmaster, From: Webmaster webmas...@felononline.info To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use,

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Curtis Gagliardi
If you think noobs aren't intimidated by and will use mailing-lists, you've probably been in the tech scene for a very long time. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Webmaster webmas...@felononline.infowrote: On 06/18/2013 05:42 PM, Cat S wrote: Hi Webmaster,

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Webmaster, From: Webmaster webmas...@felononline.info To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE On 06/18/2013 05:42 PM, Cat

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Warren Michelsen
On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: The barriers to newbs e.g. is that using mailing-lists is not easy for newbs, I've had newbs try this and none of them thought it was simple or fun, they all complied about the complexity and that it's not simple [0].

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Warren Michelsen
On Jun 18, 2013, at 1:50 PM, mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: On 06/18/2013 06:40 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote: But do explain how email is a barrier to newbs. Imagine that you're a new Tor user, with a question that's not addressed on the Tor Project website. How would you search

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-18 Thread Cat S
Hi Warren, It's now clear to me you're a troll, or at least very dense and obtuse. Go back under your bridge, you will never get another response from me. Why don't you go be disingenuous elsewhere? If you're so new to Tor, why don't you build up some cred before telling me what to do? As

[tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Cat S
Hi all, This mailing-list is a stupid fucking joke, well, at least for those of us who aren't techies. Really, this is stupid, you're not allowing a lot of people to community by using this Ivory tower mailing-list crap. I've been using Tor near 10 years now, and this has GOT to change. It's

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Asa Rossoff
Hi Cat, You've been more involved in the Torr community than I over the past 10 years; I'm only newly trying to get really actively involved, and am pretty much new to the scene, so you can bear that in mind. OK, You're mail popped up on my screen at h:26 (to nbe non-specific about my tie zone).

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Asa Rossoff
More direct responses: From: Cat S Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 5:14 PM To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org real solution = discussion forum I elaborated on my disagreement in the message I just sent. I'm going to start an account at stack exchange and try my damndest to make my question in the

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Cat S
Hi, I don't want to comment on everything you wrote, I agree with most, except about e-mail being preferred by the non-techie type. What I did want to comment on is two things: 1. I would be more than willing to help people that ask questions on a discussion board (forum), as along as it's

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Cat S
Hi, As an addendum, I want to correct phrasing, spelling and add links to the old crappy forum software used by Tor Project that I wouldn't care to use. If we were using a forum, I could simply Edit my post and correct the spelling, etc., and not have to send another damn e-mail. This:  1. I

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Peter Tonoli
On 6/18/13 11:51 AM, Cat S wrote: Stop with the fucking madness! Just make a real solution and be done with it! Otherwise, decrease the lag time between when a message is posted on the mailing-list and when it reaches my inbox. I mean, what the hell?! Why does it take so effing long for an

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Anthony Papillion
Please forgive my top posting. Posting from a mobile device. You seem to have been pretty active in the Tor community over the last decade. If the communications format is so horrible to you, why not do something about it? Instead of going on a mailing list, using offensive language, and

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Cat S
Hi Peter, From: Peter Tonoli peter+...@metaverse.org Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 7:34 PM On 6/18/13 11:51 AM, Cat S wrote: Stop with the fucking madness! Just make a real solution and be done with it! Otherwise, decrease the lag time between when a message

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: real solution = discussion forum Following a dozen forums is a time-consuming hassle, but keeping up with a dozen of mailing lists in a proper client with filtering set-up is just a breeze. The best you will get from

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Cat S
Hello Anthony, From: Anthony Papillion anth...@papillion.me Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE You seem to have been pretty active in the Tor community over

Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE

2013-06-17 Thread Cat S
Hi Roman, From: Roman Mamedov r...@romanrm.ru Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Until there's a REAL effing way to communicate, that evey1 can use, I'm DONE On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Cat S catslove...@yahoo.com wrote: