[SDL] Re: mailing list split

[David Olofson]

On Wednesday 14 March 2001 21:09, Martin Donlon wrote:
> What about IRC? Wouldn't that be a great idea?
> Maybe someone should start an #sdl channel on irc.openprojects.net?

Too real time to be an alternative to a board, list or newsground I think, 
but it's still a nice idea. (I try to stay away from IRC, though... ;-)


> > > use a windowed desktop environment. Are there any standard protocols
> > > (and server software) that would be suitable for something like that?
> >
> > How about NNTP?  :P

Yeah, that's what I was thinking about actually, perhaps together with IRC to 
produce something like a web community without the "web".


> > Seriously, with a news reader you can ignore entire conversations or only
> > keep messages that are interesting.  I'm using news.lokigames.com and it
> > is working out great for me:  I recommend anybody else with high
> > sensitivity to "drifting" unsubscribe themselves from the mailing list
> > and use the newsgroup option instead.

Sure, but it's kind of like saying "We want more noise here, so those who 
want no change should move to the newsgroup." Not very nice, eh? ;-)


//David

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