[KLUG Members] RE: great site to "get together" in

[John Bridleman]

* Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> >>Hi!
> >Hi!
> Hi!
Hi!

> Any e-mail client worth its salt can do this for you.  Also the
> "community" aspect of a LUG means I *do* read the messages that don't
> 'pertain' to me, and offer assistance if I can.  The someone else reads
> my message that doesn't 'pertain' to them, etc...  I think a forum site
> actually makes this more difficult as you have to "find" the messages,
> where as a mail client says "Here are the new ones".

I've certainly learned a lot just by lurking.

> I'm certainly not opposed to forums, but in my experience they only work
> when the topic is very directed/specific AND they are closed to the
> public.  The "effort" it takes to join a mailing list helps keep the
> signal-to-noise ratio better.  Witness your average thread on Slashdot,
> mostly rambling garbage,  people discussing the same thing under various
> different posts, almost useless as a method of collecting information.

I envy these peoples free time. I think I read /. at +2 and there is still 95% garbage.

> Maybe a NNTP-to-SMTP gateway at some point in the future,  then you
> wouldn't have to receive every message but could browse them with a news
> reader. 

We had talked about that. Maybe we should look at doing that again?

> If the message count is annoying we do have a digest mode,  and the list
> archives are browseable on the web site.

Browseable and searchable!

> Yes, and once you've learned something you can present on that topic to
> KLUG. :)  Sort of a pay-back.

Well, since I am emotionally bankrupt I may as well owe KLUG! 8-P
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org