ADMIN: What if ClassicCmp were a blog?

At 02:41 16/01/2003, Jeffrey Sharp wrote: In a word: Bleuch. I've used all kinds of elecronic comms in my past, from BBS, Usenet, mailing lists & web boards. IMHO, by far the best (in terms of threading, bandwidth, etc.) has been Usenet. Therefore, if ClassicCmp was to change at all, I'd prefer it to move to a Netnews server. However, I'd be more happy if it didn't move at all... There's been plenty of "no!!!" arguments here already, and mention has been made of a dual interface (blog + mailing list) - and the latter is the one I'd favour. By all means implement a blog, but make it an "as well as" rather than "instead of". This would be useful to me, since I am periodically away from my main computer (onto which all my e-mail arrives) for several days at a time. Until I pull my finger out & get my own internal mail server available to me, only client computers on my internal network can pull mail from it, so when I'm away I don't get classiccmp - and three other mailing list's - e-mails. So when away, I'd use the blog. The one thing mailing lists don't do (or do well if they do do it) is threading. Most e-mail clients wouldn't be able to make head nor tail of it anyway. One of the few things that cheeses me off about ClassicCmp is situations like last night - suddenly there's a whole scree of messages waiting, and I've no idea what is in reply to what, unless some decent quoting is involved. And I'm as guilty of that as anyone - Eudora, bless it's cotton socks, sticks "At [time/date], you wrote:" whenever I quote a message, which means I manually have to go put the name of the person I'm replying to in there, and I frequently forget. IMHO: By all means implement a blog, but don't remove or change the existing e-mail interface - or, rather, by all means change it, but please make those changes totally transparent to the user. -- Cheers, Ade. Be where it's at, B-Racing! http://b-racing.com