[cap-talk] Wiki for discussion?? (was Re: cap-talk infrastructure problem?)

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

Hmmm, I'm not very fond of web-based solutions.
The problem with web-archived mailing lists or blogs, is that the robots
(spiders) read the content of web pages to capture e-mail addresses, so if
we go on web-based solution we should expect an increase in spam.

val

On 06/12/2006, at 19.13, Kevin Reid wrote:

>On Dec 6, 2006, at 16:26, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>
>> The right solution to this is going to be moving to a wiki. We need to
>> set one up for The EROS Group anyway, and I was going to raise the
>> possibility next week. I didn't want to say anything until our wiki
>> evaluation process was completed, because asking people what wiki they
>> like is about as productive as asking them why everybody doesn't just
>> program in FORTH like Real Programmers do.
>
>Um, a wiki is not at all suitable for replacing a mailing list. Wikis  
>are not good for discussion, because they do not work in terms of  
>messages, unread-message tracking, and the immutable history they  
>track is of changes, not messages.
>
>I, at least, would far rather stick with silently discarded messages  
>for cap-talk and e-lang than move to an awkward-to-use system.
>
>The best existing web application for discussion purposes that I can  
>think of would be multi-author, external-comment-less weblog system,  
>or possibly a low-annoying-feature 'forum' with feeds.
>
>-- 
>Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>
>
>
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