<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
pre
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext;}
@page Section1
{size:595.3pt 841.9pt;
margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1><pre><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Platonides</span></font></b> <a
href="mailto:comproj%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=%5BComProj%5D%20Mixing%20Directories%20and%20Comms%20Tools&In-Reply-To=6g89nt%242dtngn%40smtp05.syd.iprimus.net.au"
title="[ComProj] Mixing Directories and Comms Tools">platonides at gmail.com </a><br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Wed Dec 5 19:17:17 UTC 2007<o:p></o:p></span></i></pre><pre><i><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>There mail readers allowing conversation threading (which has the little <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>problem that you need to have received the emails).<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>There's also gmane, providing a news interface for email lists. Your <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>news client *will* support threading. And as the mails are stored on the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>servers, you can access to threads no matter how old.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Alas, this list is not in gmane (other wiki*edia lists are) but it could <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>be added. Consider if that fills your expectative.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks. It’s like everything these days. So much choice. I hate emails die to the spam it creates, and am used to threads that aren’t cut into months or into separate lists. I guess people get used to anything. I’ve just seen forum work to include newbies and help them get orientated, esp good for a place like Wikipedia where lots goes on (across threads).<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> The other stuff, the real time stuff, like IRC has come an aweful long way<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> since IRC. I'll point you at the big daddy - the accessgrid<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> <a href="http://www.accessgrid.org/">http://www.accessgrid.org/</a> - which could be used for (as I've suggested)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> tying together the Alexandrian Wikimania site with the runners up in<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> different countries.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><i><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>At least it's easy to find out how to entern on an irc channel (you know <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>there're web gateways you could use, do you?). Arriving to that page i <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>don't see what i'm supposed to find nor how to get to it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>No, didn’t know there was a Web gateway to the IRC. Did I miss something here?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComProj">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComProj</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The accessgrid is primarily for larger groups. I suggested it as it’s at the fat end of the IRC skinny. Operator intensive, but I’m trying to get some unis to buy into tying some sites together for Wikimania. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Maybe this would be more relevant. <a
href="http://forums.mebeam.com/view_topic.php?id=2&forum_id=2">http://forums.mebeam.com/view_topic.php?id=2&forum_id=2</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I’m sure they’d be happy to partner with Wikipedians.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<BR>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>
Checked by AVG Free Edition.<BR>
Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.14/1172 - Release Date: 5/12/2007 8:41 AM<BR>
</FONT> </P>