I think that it's a wonderful idea.  The main gotcha is
that it needs to be user-friendly enough for a newbie to
use the first time they fire up Squeak, especially since
the mailing list as it now stands is such a resource for
novice Squeakers.  I guess you could (in classic Smalltalk
fashion) use them both in parallel until the new system is
ready to stand on its own.

Bye,
Joshua


On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 02:40:00PM +1000, Ali Chamas wrote:
> I was wondering,
> 
> What if there was a Squeak app running as a servlet
> somewhere, which acted as a central mailing list
> repository. An interface for client versions of Squeak
> could log in, check mail, do contextual searches, see
> how many hits each mail item has received, search by
> topics, and even extend the format/capabilities of the
> email item (could be a squeak object, not just plain
> email text). You could also make sure that by logging
> into the mailing group, you would be able to view all
> past items, while staying in the same app session. You
> could also create disscussion groups, and categories
> of mail items. It also means that we'd all be using
> Squeak to talk about Squeak.
> So basically, instead of using an email-based program
> to read mail from the Squeak server, we just make a
> Squeak image manage the mailing list, run it on the
> server, and use our local copies to log in and learn.
> 
> Does this idea appeal to anyone?
> 
> Ali.
> 
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