[A6] New host?!?

[David Evans]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:31:34AM -0400, Susan Baird wrote:
> 
> One thing that might be helpful is to have a 'home base' - a page that 
> is registered with the search engines that has a [ big list of stuff ]

  Good idea.  Are you volunteering to do it?  ;-)

> Regarding how we communicate, I've come to really like the emails but I 
> can go either way. I also like forums. For purposes of updating the 
> T&T, it is much easier to download a monthly archive and go through it 
> as one document than to sort through a forum of posts. So I would 
> definitely like to keep that function no matter what else we do please.
> 

  Another advantage of the mailing list approach is that it allows
external archiving.  We've seen more than one occasion where this is
tremendously useful.

> Two Concerns:
> If you have an email list like we have now 'and' a forum, somehow you 
> have to get all emails and forum posts to archive in addition to being 
> able to see posts on the forum.

  I'm sure that there's software to do this.  My idea would be to have
the mailing list and the web forum be different "views" into the same
messages.  I think we can do this.

> The advantage of a forum is that you can see 
> an entire thread without having to download an archive.

  This can be done with good archiving software.  I'm going to talk
to one list member about this.

> Additionally, 
> it can be more personable - people can chat without it being off-topic. 
> In addition to sections for Tips and issues, you can also have sections 
> for people to post their music, off-topic sections, etc.

  I don't think that we're a big enough outfit to worry about that kind
of thing.

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David Evans                                         dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie     http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo         "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada           overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual