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Re: NFC: listbot or egroups...
Doug, you said it much better than I! Thank you
>From: "Doug Dame"
>Reply-To: nfc at actwin_com
>To:
>Subject: Re: NFC: listbot or egroups...
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:30:31 -0500
>
>
>Ty Hall wrote (in part):
>
> >> I proposed, in the past, a system called Intranets.com.
> >> To me this is the way to go. There is no e-mail generated.
> >> You go to a website and on it are chat capabilities and places
> >> for pictures, if you wish to share them, and a lot of other really
> >> cool things ......
>
>
>I want stuff that comes to me, that I don't have to remember to go out and check on it everyday.
>
>I want to be able to
> * permanently keep the subset of messages that seriously interest me,
> * flag some of them for future follow-up,
> * file/store them in categories that make sense to me,
> * annotate them, and
> * change the subject-line if necessary.
>
>I want the computer to remember which specific messages I've already read and what I haven't. (even if I skip some), cuz I don't have time to be re-reading stuff that I wasn't interested in the first time around.
>
>Having "pretty" in exchange for security holes an aircraft carrier could slide through sideways is not a trade-off I'm willing to take.
>
>And everything should be retained permanently in a accessible searchable archive (that doesn't live on my machine) so that I can re-find old things down the road as my interests and needs change.
>
>As far as I know, a plain-text list-server with an archive still best meets those objectives, but admittedly this is an area of technology on which I don't keep a real close eye.
>
>
>But .... and I suspect this is the most CRITICAL issue for many people ... my most precious resource is probably time.
>
>If you/we make changes in how NFC "list-server delivered information" (for lack of a better term) gets to my eyeballs, and those changes appreciably affect my time investment in keeping up with things, this would probably fundamentally change the cost/benefit ratio so that I would not be able to participate regularly.
>
>So please think very, very carefully before "upgrading" to something "better" than a tired, old technology list-server.
>
>.02
>
>Doug Dame
>Interlachen FL
>---------------------------------
>"Content is King.
>Time is Queen.
>Long may they rule."
> - anon.
>
>
>
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