Jimmy just made 4 replies in a row to the list. A process that makes difficult to reply to them all. mailinglist--
An email-bbs bridge is absolutely the best of both worlds. You get structure of a threaded system + emailability for conservatives.
OTOH, a bit lighter is to hack up the web view of the mailman a little, I suggest something to address this in http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_media Under: Corollary issues (see google groups example).
Jimmy: Please dont write perl, as this is a common feature in mailman. see: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.011.htp
OR see a live example from some friends of mine: http://www.scipy.org/site_content/MailList
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Hunter Peress wrote:
Now i've been ignored 2x in a row, and no one is even *capable* of knowing about it.
Are you sure? I mean, I know about it, right?
I read your Talk_media page, but I'm not sure what to make of it.
Your point about the superior threading abilities of a slashdot-style bbs system is a good one. It's a good point, no doubt.
But it doesn't strike me as a sufficient reason to abandon email entirely.
What I'm thinking about and proposing is that we address whatever problems people are having with the current mailing list setup in a way that isn't going to force those of us who like the status quo just fine to try to do something radically different.
And just opening up a BBS and telling people to use it if they like isn't likely to be very successful -- it would just fracture the existing discussions unnecessarily. Better to add some BBS-features somehow, for example via a Mailman-to-Usenet or Mailman-to-BBS gateway system.
Some people -- and count me among them -- aren't even *close* to wanting to change our ways.
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