Slashcode and Zope!!

Sun Apr 13 10:58:17 PDT 2003

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:01:36PM -0400, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> I think modern technology has given us better
> forums for threaded conversations than a single
> mail list.  between slashcode format boards and
> zope and this new fangled "net news" thing, we
> could probably come up with something better.
> (and it's not like the DC area, which claims to
> be the heart of the Internet, really innovates
> anything :).

If you want the curmedgeons to join in you'd better write an e-mail
gateway.  I had this delusion when I got on the Internet that my days of
learning proprietary message interfaces on each different isolated BBS I
would visit were over.  Then they invented CGI.

Now, I've mostly gotten over my misguided idealism, but I would suggest
that if you want the BayLISA crowd to jump to a new messaging paradigm
simply to kibbutz with other SysAdmins, then you'll want to offer
something better than the possibility of kludging something together
with slashcode and Zope.

Slashcode and Zope ... you were being facetious, right?  It must have
flown over my head.  It must be because I still cringe at the thought of
ditching perfectly good-old e-mail and doing things in Mozilla, which
doesn't even have vi keybindings.  You get that metaphor, right?  Things
fly over your head when you're cringing?  HA!  I slay me.  But the vi
keybindings just create confusion, especially for the embedded LISP
crowd.

By the way, DON'T FORGET TO DO YOUR TAXES AND SEND THEM OUT BY MONDAY!!
Especially if the recession has been on your case, Uncle Sam will give
you money.  And money is really useful if the recession has been on your
case.

Love,
-danny

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