Steve Vertigo wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Hmm. Maybe a web-based bulletin board which by its
nature helps people
sort discussions by topic and discourages getting
off topic, and which
allows for easier reference to the Wikipedia content
being discussed?
Just a thought.
I think it may be getting practical --- there seems to
be inclreased traffic on the lists -- I still cant
figure out why the Village pump isnt run as some kind
of threaded chat page. -- even that would be against
the purpose of
-- the digests are miserable due to all the metadata,
-- the archives are fairly ok to read from -- aside
from plain email -- but theres no return form from
archives to answer with, and it has an annoying bug of
not wrapping unformatted text -- so that LD's and
others messages read as a single very long string...
Have you tried using the GMANE (
http://www.gmane.org/ )
interface with a good newsreader? It threads dscussions quite well,
and if there is a thread you're not interested, just use the "Ignore"
function of your newsreader, and you never have to see it again.
As for a web-based BBS, no thanks. I find browser-based interfaces clunky
(alas, it's true for editing articles as well). Also, such a beast can't be
used offline, which is a big minus for me.
- Stephen G.