Yet another forum - MSDSite.com

Mike Davis wrote: Great to see more vintage and classic forums being listed. The only thing I hate to see is the fragmentation. Usenet, FTN-style and Qwk networks on BBS'es, etc. used to be able to bring together scattered groups of people and individuals all over the world in a non-centralized, non-single-point-of-failure way. Web-based forums have really not tried to go there yet, in part because some are commercial and sometimes proprietary, with excessive numbers of PHB's and lawyers making policy decisions instead of the moderators and/or users, and because even the more independent forums are usually not up on stuff like RDF feeds or nntp backends, or aren't in a position to implement them with their hosting services. It's even harder now in the climate of DMCA and super DMCA's etc. that have an effect on way more than just retransmission of movies and audio CD's, at least when you're thinking of gating Yahoo groups or something. Compilation copyrights, TOS's, and all that bs. Nevertheless, I'm setting up a few FTN echos that will also be available by nntp, RDF, a web based-forum/news site, mailing lists, etc. if anyone is interested. It really helps everyone, though, especially in the long run. Different forums or forum hosts come and go, and so on. Look at what has happened to all the forums on the old online services. Most of that info is now just plain gone, or going fast, subject to being tossed out at any time. There is no Google archive for CIS, Delphi, the Source, etc. There is Google, for web sites, but again, there is just all that fragmenation which makes it hard to search for anything, and prevents discussions Jay, I'd be happy to work with you on gating the cc lists, if you're interested. Anyone else has any ideas on this, please chime in. I'm interested in what people think about the idea, and if anyone is doing anything like this already. Or just contact me directly. jbdigriz