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On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:23:08PM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> Steven Belknap just suggested to me the Slashdot forum format, as a
> means for meeting my requirements for making the list manageable.
>
> I have driven past Slashdot, and thought it hid too much. Who here
> frequents it? Do you think it'd help?
Slashdot sucks. Both the site and the message board program.
I prefer mail. Having huge, extremely deep and nested slashdot-style
threads is not going to have any help on the amount of volume.
Things will still be repeated and such because whenever there's
this much volume no one realistically (except maybe AndR) is going
to be reading every single word.
If you want better organization I suggest that we use better Subject:
headings and that you get a mail client which can display things
in a threaded view (if you don't have one already). Of course, a
few of these jboskepre use shitty clients (please upgrade or don't
use web-based shit) which don't send In-reply-to headers so some
messages won't properly thread (you are one of these people Nick ;) ).
If you want more permanence I don't think a /. style thing will
really help either, because there'll be so many comments that the
amount of permanence is not going to matter (think the yahoogroups
archive, or (better) robin's indented-thread archive of the lojban-list
thing. No one *ever* looks there before spewing to the lists).
Furthermore, a /. thing will require using a webbrowser for this
stuff, which sucks ass.
Ok I'm done now. fa'o
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