it was just an idea
----- Original Message -----
From: andy levy <andylevy@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: DML: forum
>
> jdurling@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> > We have
> > just been thinking that it would be alot easier for quite a few people
to
> > participate this way and it would be far eaiser to follow a post. Nice
thing
> > about the forum style is that the topics you don't give a damn about can
be
> > just overlooked without ever reading a single commnet in them (seems to
be
> > an area of friction in the past). Basically just looking at different
> > things.
>
> All of which can be done with a decent news/mail client as well (ignore
> thread/mark thread read/ignore sender, etc.). And far faster. There's
> a reason NNTP (newsgroups) has survived for what, 20 years? It's much
> easier for me to follow the DML than the several web forums I'm a member
of.
>
> Plus, having it more of a chore to access from work is a bonus to me. I
> don't want it to be easy for me to get distracted at work by
> reading/posting on the DML.
>
> > The one nice thing about this way is several different people can be
> > moderators and take some of the burdon away form Jon trying to keep up
with
> > the webpage.
>
> In the nearly 5 years I have been on this list, I can count on one hand
> with fingers left over the number of times a "moderator" might have been
> needed. This is a self-policing group, and it works damn well. As soon
> as you introduce a moderation system, people will start getting up in
> arms about how they're being treated onfairly, or will just start
> posting inappropriate material.
>
> > I know he's busy and there is stuff there that could use
> > updating.
>
> A few months ago I independently started on a visual redesign of the DML
> site (including some shuffling of where things are) but stalled as I got
> real busy at work and time just didn't allow. Plus, I'd started it
> without talking to Jon and found out that the software needed for what I
> had already built wasn't on the server (PHP). I do intend to revisit it.
>
> --
> -andy
>
> http://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/ --- andylevy@yahoo.com
> --------------------------------------------
> "Whatever Adam does, do the opposite and you'll be fine"
> -Bob Tom
> --------------------------------------------
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 06 2004 - 11:46:30 EST