Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 07:27:32 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://rah.star-gate.com/HyperNews/get/forums/sound.html Message-ID: <19970602072732.17409@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199706011943.MAA20315@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Sun, Jun 01, 1997 at 12:43:58PM -0700 References: <19970601080255.11748@ct.picker.com> <199706011943.MAA20315@rah.star-gate.com>
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Amancio Hasty: |Randall Hopper : |> I'm assuming that this will auto-grab relevant messages posted to the |> multimedia mailing list. I don't want to have to bring up Netscape/lynx to |> go browse for new articles and to post responses regularly. |For a project , I think that there is a need to have information repositories |whose content are controlled and organized . A good example is |Bt848 Project Web Page: http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html |It would have been nice to have archived some of the dialogues that |we have carried out in the Bt848 project about design/trade off issues. I agree with most of that. I would see the utility in archiving the entire multimedia list in one of these search engines. Like you, I sometimes wish that I could go back and find a specific post I'd seen in recent weeks that I didn't happen to save at the time. An "up-to-date", flexible, controlled archive of everything posted to the multimedia list (i.e. content not moderated) would be useful. The list archive off the FreeBSD home page, of course, doesn't meet the up-to-date and flexible criteria. :-) However, two issues: 1) list splitting 2) web-based posting & new-message browsing First, splitting the list up into separate lists at this point could be counterproductive. Currently, this list is "the place" to look to find out about the latest goings on with sound and video in FreeBSDland or to ask multimedia questions that'll get the attention of the appropriate developer(s). If we fork-off into web pages, it becomes more difficult for newcomers to hook-in and find out what all's going on so they can contribute. Now if the multimedia list was a heavy-traffic list, my opinion here would be different, but its not. Second, list splitting aside for a moment, there's the issue of web-hosted posting and new-message browsing. A web interface is good for browsing/searching archives, not IMO for posting & reading new mail. SMTP and NNTP tools are designed for this; Web tools IMO are still playing catch-up. Now if you were intending on having a gateway that would SMTP-out new list mail and accept new list mail via SMTP-in, that sounds good. But you didn't mention that. Maybe you want to describe what you're proposing in more detail so the list can discuss it and can evaluate which direction the group should elect to go. Randall
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