[kwlug disc.] KWLUG - The Kitchener Waterloo Linux User Group new content notification for mail-forum-merge

[Bob Jonkman]

This is what Unsolicited <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> said
about "Re: [kwlug disc.] KWLUG - The Kitch" on 16 May 2007 at 20:12

> webhost at kwlug.org wrote, On 5/16/2007 10:33 AM:
> > Greetings mail-forum-merge,
[...]
> > If all goes well (?) people on the mailing list will see this post even
> > if they never have visited the website in their lives. This increases
> > the potential for spam, but it adds a level of communication that has
> > been missing since the days of kwlug-forums.

Hooray!  Congratulations, Paul!


> > it adds a level of communication
> 
> But does it?

/I/ think so...


> Isn't this one-way communication, also known as 'speaking', not
> communication? Is this not also the point of the RSS feeds?

I'm hoping that the mailing list messages also get posted on the Web forums, and also made 
available on the RSS/Atom feeds.  This gives us the choice of tool to use for communication 
(Web/Feed/Mail).  It seems to me this fulfills one of the goals of Open-ness: we work the way 
we want to, with the tools we choose, without being dictated to by Da Man.

It so happens I'm an e-mail weenie, but now the Web weenies get to participate on equal 
footing to the e-mail weenies.


> [...] is this
> not just the way things are?

Not any longer!

Next: alt.linux.kwlug.fan.fan.fan

--Bob.


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