On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:49:40AM -0000, b5mith wrote: > The biggest problem I see with the VASSAL project is that there is a > lot of "what about me" going on with very little thought for what is > best for VASSAL. > So we need to stick with dis-organised 80s style collaboration because > there are a couple of people who want to read e-mail on a PDA??
But, it isn't disorganized; it probably seems that way to you because the e-mail readers of the 2000's are much much worse at organization than those from the 80s/90s. The time worn arguments for a forum (every mailing list has this fight every couple of months) are threading, igoring, and searching. But, we already have all those with what we have now. In addition we allow people to choose between push and pull content delivery, access to the individual comments so that they can organize them how most makes sense to them if the standard doesn't work for them, disconnected access to message history, rapid navigation of discussions, and "you don't need a browser (tm)". I suspect that it would better to agree to disagree on these things and move on to more fruitful discussions like Borg Cube vs. Death Star, Basestar vs. Minbari Cruiser, and Wesley vs. Klingons. Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -- Mark Twain ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
