From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 04/09/02-11:55:29 PM Z
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Richard Sullivan wrote:
> Listserves hang on by habit. There are much better and more modern ways of
> doing this. Webboards are cropping up all over the place.
Even if this were true (and the consensus seems to be that it isn't), it
seems rather -- oh I suppose *crass* is the word -- to recruit from this
"list" while disparaging it.
Constantly.
Judy
> I run a small Webboard for alt photography at:
>
> http://sirius.secureforum.com:8080/~bostick/login
> A quick name and password gets you in.
> No spam or advertising and no banner ads, never has been and never will be.
> Only a notice about APIS.
>
> First off with Webboard you can have conferences or forums for various
> topics and subscribe on site for the forums and you can have email just
> like Listserve and you can have it in digest, single or zipped format. We
> also have a Coffeehouse forum for off topic discussions and squabbles.
>
> You can, if you like, have web access to all the forums and messages which
> is nice for those with a fast connection.
>
> You can post images!
>
> You can have moderated forums.
>
> You can have chat for each forum.
>
> You can set up a Usenet for the forum.
>
> You can have private forums.
>
> You can edit your message if you goof. (Once mailed though you're dead!)
>
> You can set it up so messages have to be verified by a moderator or moderators.
>
> You can have file attachments.
>
> Peter Fredrick is setting up to teach classes in TemperaPrint on-line for
> free. Stephen Livic taught gum classes a year ago. The ability to put up
> images and do chat makes for a distant learning experience. I invite you to
> come over and take a look at his and his student's images. We played with
> the chat feature yesterday AM.
>
> I have several other forums and classes in the works. I will be hosting a
> carbon forum once the B+S tissue is on the market.
>
>
> --Dick Sullivan
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