--- Joshua Gargus <gargus at cs.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> 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.  

What if it were just another minimised window sitting
on the MVC desktop when a 'fresh' Squeak was opened?
If we clearly defined the model of the "mail center",
plus the features which the user would use, i'm sure
we can come up with a wonderful view solution. And if
we clearly seperated the "mail center" model from it's
view (as in the classic MVC), we might be able to
re-vamp/re-visit/modify the view down the road.

Here is a list of some of the mailing list domains
which we could incorporate into the "Squeak mail
center":

* Announcements
* Updates
* Highlights
* Newbies
* FAQs (by category)
* How-to... (by category)
* Members listing (by programming niche category - eg,
3D experts, sound experts, network experts, AI experts
etc)

If all mail items were stored in a central collection,
then we could sort of alias particular items into
these groups. For example, someone might post an
update, which is a highlight, which falls into a FAQ
category. This way, you might find the same item
referenced by several mail issue domains within this
"Squeak mail center".

I like it.
 
> 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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