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Re: Shared learning experience on albumen

My apologies. Jeff was right. One of my users signed up and used the 
alt-photo list email address as their own. They've been deleted. It appears 
to be some malicious mischief as he/she came in as Custer and Little Big 
Horn as their address.
Sorry about the postings.

--Dick



At 09:53 AM 7/14/2000 -0600, you wrote:

>>Jeffery said:
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>>However, the following has been posted more than once to the alt-photo
>>list and I feel represents the other side of my point.
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>>Richard Sullivan wrote:
>> > ... Thanks for signing up at the B+S Alt Photo Circle webboard. If you 
>> haven't
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>My search of my archives show that that did not go to the List but was 
>sent to you because you filled out a "Contact Form" on the B+S web site. 
>This form is designed to allow folks to be put on our email list and be 
>kept up on events. I will remove your name from that list.
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>If by chance the alt photo list address is in one of my contact files, I 
>will try to find it and remove it. I never intended to post these mailings 
>to the list.
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>I also have to disagree with Jeffery's contention that the Alt Photo 
>Circle is another "List." It does support email but that is only a small 
>subset of its features. However unlike a "List," you can email subscribe 
>or unsubscribe at the web site to any of the various conferences, or if 
>you wish, you can participate through your browser on-line. If you 
>participate on-line the conversations are threaded. Our "Conferences" are 
>"Hosted" which greatly cuts down on the squabble factor which has been a 
>major issue here. All off topic subjects can be dealt with in the Coffee 
>House Conference. Conferences can also be private. If you make a mistake 
>in your post you can edit it later and correct it. Each Conference has 
>"chat room" capability. People can post images to the Conference and yes, 
>really post them and not just point to them on another web site, thus you 
>do not need to have access to a web site to post images. These last three 
>features have allowed us to hold classes on-line. The two classes we've 
>had have been quite successful and we are planning two more in the Fall.
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>I am also open to proposals from anyone here who would be interested in 
>doing an on-line class. We charge a small fee and the teacher gets some 
>remuneration. The fee is only to keep people honest and is hardly a profit 
>center for B+S.
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>Thus in the Webboard software we have quite a powerful tool at our 
>disposal and we have only begun to scratch the surface of what can be 
>done. It's all very new and open to inventive new uses. We will win some 
>and lose some, but there won't be any gain unless we try.
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>Let me explain what a "Shared Learning Experience" might be as there seems 
>to be some confusion over this. People will be able to sign up on-line to 
>participate in what will be an informal group-guided class. Those that 
>sign up will be able to post in the Albumen Conference, those that don't 
>can read the posts but not post themselves. Those that sign up will be in 
>some sense committed to actually working in Albumen. Those that don't can 
>watch but not clutter up the conversations. Periodically, probably once or 
>twice a week, there will be a chat session open to all. Some folks may 
>have previously posted images to the conference for comments.
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>Chat, email, on-line posting, image posting capability, conferences 
>private and public, and moderators all add up to quite a different 
>"experience" than what can be provided by a Listserve group.
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>--Dick Sullivan
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