[REBOL] Re: List subscription
From: SunandaDH:aol at: 25-Aug-2004 5:37
Peter:
> In my limited understanding both AltME and IOS provide full offline
> viewing but neither allows offline messages to be created and stored
> for later uploading. This is a problem for people with infrequent or
> pay-as-you-use internet access.
They also tend to be used for private information exchange rather than public.
There is a danger that the REBOL community will retreat into a high-walled
enclave and be all but invisible to the outside world.
Of course if anyone finds us and climbs the barriers (Altme -- a low
barrier; or IOS a much higher one), we'd be highly welcoming. But we probably
wouldn't have to worry about that happening very often.
The ML is indexed on Google and other search engines, and messages on it
appear high up in search engine pages for a wide range of (sometimes surprising)
phrases.
It is possible to export Altme groups to make them available on the web.
That is done with the View 1.3 project, eg:
http://www.rebol.net/projects/view1.3/chat167.html
But it is hard to mine much useful information by reading what was mainly
real-time chat. The valuable resources are in the bug tracker and checklists, and
they are not web-published.
This is not to say that an email mailing list doesn't have its problems too.
Just that it is a serious tool for communicating; and that until its strengths
are replicated in other media, doing away with it would be premature.
Sunanda.
