ADMIN: What if ClassicCmp were a blog? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jan 2003

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 From: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 15, at various times, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:

  In my quest to cover every aspect, to think about
every permutation of what
  ClassicCmp *could* be in the future, I have yet
another question to ask
 ClassicCmp subscribers: What if ClassicCmp were a weblog, in the style of
 Slashdot or Kuro5hin? 
I have to add my vote to the many others who've said "NO!!!"

    - Posting and reading of messages would be
doable from a web browser. An
      email interface could be developed, but it
wouldn't be the primary
     method of participation. 
I would hate that.

    - You would have an account with a username and
password. 
Right, I need another username/password (likely with different rules to all
the rest) like I need another hole in my head :-)

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 I see no particular advantage to using a browser for the
use of this group. If one looks at the attempts with something
as global as news groups, we would be quickly trashed with
hundreds of "Please fix my PCee" stuff from those that have
little interest in classic machines.
 If we made it a closed group, like it is now, we'd still have
the problem that even with current technology, many of us are
bandwidth limited on how we use the web ( minor problem for me ).
 I can't think of any real advantage of going to some web
based system and it would surely remove many from our group.
 DON'T TRY TO FIX WHAT ISN'T BROKEN!!!!
Dwight