Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jon Winters wrote:
>
> > Hmmmm.... What would happen if? If we abandoned this email list and
> > moved to a slashdot style forum. As much as I love Slashdot I must
> > admit that I check it once or twice a day and rarely reply to the
> > stories. I'll submit news about once a month. OTOH I have spent a
> > great deal of time reading almost every email on this list and I
> > contribute almost every day. (often more than once per day)
>
> I think you make some excellent points, Jon. Not to belabor my argument
> -- as I said, I'm game to try anything -- but I think a better managed and
> maintained mailing list can help address some of the problems that you've
> listed here.
The paragraph below that got snipped was the important one... all of the
successful open source projects that I'm involved in use fast-paced
communicaton tools. Loads of email on multiple list-servs (with web
archives) and IRC channels.
My only beef with this list is the spam at the bottom of every message.
-- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/jon/"Everybody Loves The GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
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