Hello,
This conversation about mailing-list efficiency and combination of
inline/offline access reminds me the "Elephant" project.
Look at the Lojban wiki here:
  http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?Elephant
Cheers,
  Jerome.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Denker [mailto:marcus at ira.uka.de]
> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:39 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: The future of this list. (Was: Will StrongTalk...)
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:32:11AM +0200, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
> > Why not HyperNews? This is a stable, working system, 
> combining the messaging
> > and the persistent "article" pages. There are also other 
> cooperative projects
> > but more structured than Wikis, e.g. COW, etc.
> > 
> I think it's "Push Vs. Pull" and "Disconnected Vs. Online".
> 
> What's good with a simple mailinglist is that I don't have to be
> online while reading or anwerig (I am paying by the minute...).
> I think this is important. Even if you have a good internet connection
> you want to read while on a train or in a caffee.
> 
> Having a Push-Medium is important, too. I just don't visit the Squeak 
> Wiki or other websites that often. Onother important aspect 
> is that it 
> is a little work to get subscribed. This helps to keep 
> strange people away.
> 
> So I don't think that web-based systems or usenet would be 
> the way we should
> go.
> 
> But I think you are right that email isn't perfekt.
> 
> We should really look into using Squeak itself for all 
> communication in our
> community. If we are serious about building a "New Medium" 
> with Squeak, we
> should start using this medium to argue about squeak itself. 
> 
> We should really start thinking about what squeak needs to 
> make it powerfull
> enough to be used as for its own development. We use Squeak 
> as a tools to
> build itself, but we should us it a medium (to talk about 
> itself), too.
> 
>           Marcus
> 
> 
> -- 
> Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de  -- Squeak! http://squeakland.org
> 
>