[SI-LIST] Re: Si-list: the next format ??
- From: alan.hiltonnickel@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:20:10 -0800
Ray,
I will tag on with the rest with a vote for continued email
functionality. The email format works, we all are comfortable with it,
it comes to us automatically - no searching required. In fact, the more
OCD of us feel a need to read email when it comes in, so it forces us to
keep up-to-date.
In my mind, it would only make sense to go to a web-based (or perhaps
web-/augmented/) format if there is a clear and compelling reason. One
of the ongoing issues we face in the forum is the problem of
communicating circuit information, either as schematics, layout or a
photograph. We cannot place documents in the messages, and every so
often someone tries, resulting in a series of non-productive posts.
Everyone finds their own solution to this, usually involving a
third-party server and placing a link to that server in the message.
When that server eventually goes down or the data is removed, the link
goes stale and the archive is useless.
I suspect part of your motivation for looking into these alternatives
includes some administrative tools, but if we could solve the
document-sharing problem, while keeping the email option, I think many
here would be happy.
My personal hope is that we can avoid an SI Twitter feed.
Alan Hilton-Nickel
Oracle Corp
Santa Clara, CA
On 2/17/2012 2:24 PM, Ray Anderson wrote:
> Si-list:
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> I'd like to take a few moments to pose a few questions related to
> si-list to determine what the general response of the list membership
> is.
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> Si-list has been active on the net for about 18 years. Over those 18
> years it has undergone 2 or 3 changes in the way the listserver works
> (from a Unix .forward file to the Majordomo listserver s/w to the
> Ecartis listserver s/w on freelists.org). Through those 3 incarnations
> it has basically been a classic internet mailing list with no real
> earthshaking changes in how the message traffic is presented to the
> users.
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> As all are probably aware most all "social networking" apps these days
> are web based (Facebook, Yahoo Groups, Linkedin etc. .....). The main
> paradigm shift is that these applications require the user to "pull" the
> data from the web site as opposed to a mailist (like si-list) where the
> traffic is "pushed" to the user.
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> I've been considering alternatives to our present setup that could make
> si-list more user friendly and increase the features available to the
> list membership. At this time I won't go into any specifics, but will
> pose just a few questions that I'd like to see some feedback on related
> to possible changes in si-list.
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> 1) Do you see moving to a web-based format as a positive
> development or problematic from the user's perspective?
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> 2) If the list were to move to a web-based format is it important
> to retain the option of posting messages via e-mail and receiving list
> traffic via e-mail or could that option be dispensed with?
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> 3) If a web-based solution needed to host a limited number of
> non-obtrusive si-related advertisements to defray operating costs do you
> see this as a major issue?
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> The solutions currently under consideration are NOT Facebook, Yahoo
> Groups or Linkedin based, but would probably entail a state-of-the-art
> Forum type application running on a reliable commercial server fully
> backed up with wideband net connectivity.
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> Your comments are welcome.
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> -Ray Anderson
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