Re: Leaving rasfc

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:16:39 -0800, Bill Swears <wswears@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Remus Shepherd wrote:
Tina Hall <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Remus Shepherd <remus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wonder if there are any other options that people can recommend?

Someone could set up a mailing list.

Usenet is 1990's technology. Mailing lists are 1980's technology.
I'd *really* like to see a move to the web.

So would I. Unfortunate that it takes up to a couple minutes for each
LJ page to load. Facebook is a lot faster, for me, and more
interactive, but it still isn't nearly as quick as NNTP. I think Yahoo
groups can give the best of both worlds, in that you can choose whether
to use a web forum or take e-mail.

AOL, I think.

I'd like to be able to use /italics/ in posts. I'd like full html too.
But I find any delay which is long enough to be detectable an irritation
- and a waste of time.

I'm on *one* Yahoo group, but it's one where I'm a lurker - I joined
late in its existence, and I post so little (maybe one post a year) that
the regulars have generally forgotten I'm on it. And it is low volume.
It works fine for me receiving it by e-mail.

I wouldn't be happy with it if I wanted to post more than once a year,
on average.

My ideal would be an updated usenet-like thing. I'd be happy for it to
be a plug-in to a browser: all it would need to do would be to pre-load
the pages I'll want to read next, while I'm doing something else. It
could probably be done in a way which would work on ordinary browsers[*]
without the plug-in, as long as the reader didn't mind waiting for the
next page.

The hard part isn't technical - it's social. The problem is getting
people to adopt it,in competition with all the alternatives, which all
do similar but different things, and all in different ways.

Jonathan
[*] Come to think of it, it could probably be done by putting a bit of
javascript to pre-load the next page on each web-page, so it would work
off-the-shelf with an ordinary browser. There's no good reason why LJ
etc. couldn't do that now - unless they want you to spend more time
reading adverts or something.

--
"If common sense were a reliable guide, we wouldn't need
science in the first place." Amanda Gefter, New Scientist.
.

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