[REBOL] Re: Altme: how to find groups
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 17-Jun-2003 23:53
Hi Mat,
MB> I can't list or join any other worlds though.
That's the idea. Worlds are safe; only those you invite can get in.
It's not meant to be an ML replacement. It's a different kind of tool.
As Reichart has said, people may set up a world for a single
conversation and then throw it away. You may also set up a world to
last a long time. You might even use it as a lightweight information
manager that lets you get at data from anywhere.
MB> So far it looks like a nifty toy but I'm really just not getting
MB> why on earth it's a good idea to have moved the mailing list
MB> discussion onto this
RT didn't move the mailing list onto AltME; it's just this
self-organizing system reorganizing itself. It came; we saw; a number
of us now do both. Carl only wanted to let people know that it's quieter
here now because there is another channel that is active, and where lots
of ML members spend some of their time now.
MB> - especially when there's no actual procedure to 'join' and participate.
It's not an official channel, but you are going through the informal
procedure now. :)
MB> Looks like a nice demonstration of Rebol but pretty much useless to
MB> actually serve as an interactive forum in my view. Unless there's
MB> loads of hidden complexity that I'm just not seeing,...
I don't know why you'd want more complexity, but I find it far from
useless. You can often get an answer in short order, if not always
real time. It's a *wonderful* interactive forum IMO. On the ML, you
don't have named groups, or private messages, or checklists, or user
information, or alerts, or single click copying of messages, or
real-time response.
Just my 2 cents.
MB> Isn't SMTP with auth really quite a useful thing these days? Has no
MB> one else tackled this? I really don't want to have to write an SMTP
MB> sending function just to do this.
If someone needs it, someone will write it. I needed it for one
account a while back, and Scott Jones's version worked great for me. I
haven't heard of any other implementations, but maybe someone will
chime in with one.
-- Gregg