From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 04/08/02-08:42:58 AM Z
Sandy,
But as I mentioned before the Webboard also mimics the Listserve perfectly.
Yes going to the site takes time but you can everything mailed to you and
select the forums you want mailed and not have to visit the site except to
see images or chat. Thus you can have the best of both worlds. Even then
the mail on the Webboard can come in digest, zip or singular format. Your
argument about line time is not valid in that case.
--Dick
At 07:18 PM 4/7/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>But the essential question is, what is the "doing this" that Dick talks
>about. I have visited and participated in Dick's webboard many times but
>for most of the things that I am interested in "doing" listserves do it
>more efficiently when measured in time. If you want to exchange images,
>engage in live time chat, or do any of the other things that webboards
>allow, then fine. However, the cost of that is one-line time and I think
>that the great majority of people still connect to the internet with
>telephone line modem connections. From past experience I can tell you that
>visiting and working on a webboard like the one at B%S takes a lot of
>time. On the other hand participating in a listserve takes virtually no
>time, and if your major interest is in an uncomplicated exchange of ideas
>and information I find the elegance in simplicity and efficiency.
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>Some folks like trucks, others buy cars and some like motorcycles, and the
>world keeps turning.
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>Sandy King
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>> I will not belabor the point any further, except to say that I agree with
>>Richard's assessments entirely. I am a regular on the WELL, whose Engaged
>>software allows for exactly the same kind of elegant solution. To see and
>>example go:
>> http://engaged.well.com/engaged/engaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&f=d
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>>As I also said, if folks like sticking with the listserve, then that's fine
>>by me.
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>>Jeff
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Sullivan [mailto:richsul@earthlink.net]
>>Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 1:14 PM
>>To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>>Subject: Alt photo forums and listserve -- yech!
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>>Listserves hang on by habit. There are much better and more modern ways of
>>doing this. Webboards are cropping up all over the place.
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