[time-nuts] Posting style Was: looking for gooddescription/generalized model for time adjustments

[Steve Rooke]

Has anyone discussed making this mailing list into a centralised forum
on web server. The benefits would be that all replies are naturally
threaded, so it's easy to scroll and see context, and threads do not
get disjointed by some broken email systems out there. This system
lends itself to being able to be searched so we can all look up things
easier instead of reposting the same questions over and over. It can
still be a closed shop with login for access and any spammers could be
easily removed. With it centralised, this could reduce the amount of
traffic that has to be sent out to clients and there are no problems
with people going on vacation and setting an autoresponder by
accident. It could be split into various sub-forums with specialities
in different time-nuts context so people who have no interest in
certain subjects could miss them. There is no more multiple time-nuts
footers added to each posting. Most people have full web access now
and there is really little need for just a Usenet style newsgroup. It
would also keep this stuff out of our email boxes which should be left
for perhaps more immediately relevant things in our lives, not that
time-nuts is irrelevant by a long shot.

Now I'd better duck.

73,
Steve

2009/7/31 Arnold Tibus <Arnold.Tibus at gmx.de>:
> Top Posting, Mid Posting or Bottom Posting,
> I agree to not discuss it extensively.
>
> But why it is necessary to fill up the archive space with twice, triple or even
>  more times of:
>
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> I do not understand it. Can this be solved?
>
> Perhaps it is wrong to just delete at least this part, but it does save some space.
>
> HTML is very good for Internet information pages, but personally I have some
> problems having to read through never ending Spaghetty Lines. Ok, when I trim
> my mailer prog to show only a quarter of the screen width these lines get wrapped
> to be readable.
>
> I do not use the multi featured mailing programs. I want to avoid any hidden
> codes to get active. I do only need just ASCII or ANSI characters for typing
> text. Perhaps I am alone whith this behaviour...
>
> Why not to use the different ways of posting all together?
>
> When the response does follow more or less immediately I think it is not
> necessary to rehash what I lready have on my disk. Perhaps just mentioning the
> subject with date/ time may be sufficient. If there are doubts then I think to add the
>  previous text at the end is sufficient, even if it sounds to be more logic to put it
>  in front. In most cases I anyway step down immediately to the new text without
> having read this known old part...
>
> I find the Center Posting important when the mail is complex containing
> lots of different points and statements or questions, but that does not seem to be
> read easily either.
>
> Thanks Rex for your mail and pointing to the WIKI I didn't know about.
>
> Excuse me, ecause my answer is not specific to just one previous mail I just
>  do not repeat them.
>
> Arnold
>
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A man with one clock knows what time it is;
A man with two clocks is never quite sure.