In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005021951590.949-100000@jack.pacbell.net>, Eugene Er
ic Kim writes:
>On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Eric Armstrong wrote:
>
>> * At yesterday's meeting, the thought surfaced that we need
>> to know what the other systems provide in the way of
>> evaluation capabilities, for comparison with SlashDot.
>
>My personal opinion is that none of these systems are better than manually
>using e-mail for communication and the web for archiving, summarizing, and
>distributing.
I respectfully disagree. In my opinion:
o The emphasis around structuring discussion on highly focused
"articles" is a win.
o The fact that I can selectively turn off certain subject categories
is a win.
o The ability to heavily customize the site based on your own
preferences is a win.
o The ability to lighten the load on my mailbox is a win.
o The fact that they are just as open to outside observers as members
is a win.
o The fact that they are based on open source technologies (and are
thus significantly more adaptable than most people's mail reading
environments) is a win.
o The fact that with a Zope based WebLog environment (Squishdot) we
may have a simple way to leverage the weblog into full-scale DKR
relatively quickly is a win.
I think you see where I'm coming from. And in any case, I've been
playing around with Zope and Squishdot on my machine at home and I
think I can in all honesty say that I like it. A lot. And there are
already simple collaboration tools that we can bring together on the
main WebLog that may make our life somewhat easier.
>This list is already archived on the web. (By the way, does anyone have a
>working username/password? The username/password I have doesn't seem to
>work anymore.) Many people on this list have personal web sites. If you
>have long documents, such as the DKR that Eric was manually maintaining,
>put it on the web, and just e-mail the list with a brief note saying that
>a revised version is available.
I'm finding this rather inadequate. And the fact that login to the
list is not automatically managed is a big loss.
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