[Wikipedia-l] I like BBS:es

[Jimmy Wales]

The Cunctator wrote, clarifying the meaning of 'better archives':
> Easily referenceable.
> 
> Accessible in the same medium as most recent posts.

I'm not sure what these mean.  By "easily referencable", do you mean
something like "a stable url that's easy to cut and paste when
writing"?  And presumably the url should be clickable in the archives.

By "accessible in the same medium as most recent posts", what do you
mean?

I know people who subscribe to mailman mailing lists, then set
themselves to 'nomail' and read the mailing list on the web.  I think
posts appear in the archives as quickly -- or quicker -- than they
appear in people's inboxes.  Is that all you meant here?

The reason I'm asking all these questions is in an attempt to find out
if there's an easy way to provide a tidbit of extra functionality to
our existing mailing list software so as to make BBS-supporters happy.

(Obviously, the BBS-supporters have no reason to want email fans such
as myself to have to change my habits.)

--Jimbo