Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:36:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: frankd@yoda.fdt.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cool Web page interface to mail + search engine? Message-ID: <199703260436.VAA27000@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199703260351.TAA16687@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Mar 25, 97 07:51:13 pm
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> Well, I guess you never heard of a controlled discussion forum > before . I guess it most be a toooo simple idea. You see there are > classes of projects in which there is a strong desire to provide > a control forum . For instance, the current Bt848 video capture > project in the multimedia mailing is just a *simple* example. > For those kinds of project oriented processes it is desired to > have a structured / controlled environment. The point of this discussion *IS* to discuss a mechanism whereby the list archives are made useful. The point of this discussion is *NOT* to discuss a mechanism whereby the llists themselves can be made more useful. If you want a controlled discussion forum, then go to moderated news groups on a private hosting news net and password protect your servers for even more control. > If we can provide adequate presentation from enough controlled environments > then maybe we got a chance at controlling the wild growth in the > mailing list. Again, the point is to make the archives useful. A side effect of that should be capping the amount of repetition. I believe it would be a mistake to attempt to cap growth in participation. > > read all messages and determine where in the hierarchy each should go. Can > > we look forward to seeing an alpha version of your code soon? > > Nah, I repeat I leave such mundane task to Terry 8) Heh. > For the record , I do like Terry. In this case , I do think that he > can come up with a clever solution to the problem and not just sit on the > problem. And to clarify for anyone who might think otherwise: I never take any of these exchanges personally, even if they're intended that way. Frank: Amancio is a good guy (or I wouldn't give out his multimedia list and email address so much 8-)); I think we had a little confusion in semantics (what he posted _looke_ "blunt") due to him not being a native English speaker... it's hard to tell from his writing because he generally expresses himself better than most natives in his writing. Amancio: Well, what do you think of my suggested soloution? (see other posting). I doubt JMB will let me hack on the lists (and he probably shouldn't, I'm a terrible PERL programmer), but the changes are pretty trivial, except the "delay-archiving for parent arrival" and the reindexing, which is optional value-added functionality. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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