Platonides platonides at gmail.com 

Wed Dec 5 19:17:17 UTC 2007

There mail readers allowing conversation threading (which has the little 

problem that you need to have received the emails).

There's also gmane, providing a news interface for email lists. Your 

news client *will* support threading. And as the mails are stored on the 

servers, you can access to threads no matter how old.

Alas, this list is not in gmane (other wiki*edia lists are) but it could 

be added. Consider if that fills your expectative.

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).

> The other stuff, the real time stuff, like IRC has come an aweful long way

> since IRC. I'll point you at the big daddy - the accessgrid

> http://www.accessgrid.org/ - which could be used for (as I've suggested)

> tying together the Alexandrian Wikimania site with the runners up in

> different countries.

At least it's easy to find out how to entern on an irc channel (you know 

there're web gateways you could use, do you?). Arriving to that page i 

don't see what i'm supposed to find nor how to get to it.

No, didn’t know there was a Web gateway to the IRC. Did I miss something here?

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComProj

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. 

Maybe this would be more relevant. http://forums.mebeam.com/view_topic.php?id=2&forum_id=2

I’m sure they’d be happy to partner with Wikipedians.