Re: A plea for restraint

From: Alex Future Bokov (alexboko@umich.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 19:46:26 MDT


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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> Alex Future Bokov wrote:
> >
>
> > STOP IGORING EXTRODOT.ORG... THE INSTITUTE CREATED IT PRECISELY TO GIVE
> > YOU AN ALTERNATIVE TO THIS STONE-AXE OF AN ONLINE FORUM. USE IT.

Btw, I'd like to retroactively tone down this outburst, which was
directed at the software and the medium of email and certainly not at
the admins of this list who work hard at it, and are great at what they
do. I hope nobody took it that way.

> The slash clones are even more primitive in providing mail/mailing list
> services than email is. If slash incorporates at least as much
> capability for discussions, threading, offline processing of mail,
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^
                 Got this. Got this. What do you mean by this?

> private/public replies and so on then I would use it more. Otherwise,

Hmm. A good idea, I suppose. Although in Slash clones you do get the
author's mailto: link which you can click to email them *if* the author
chooses to make their personal email address avaialble to the public.

I welcome specific suggestions, though. Even if it's just one thing the
mailing list does that the Extropy Institute slash site
(http://www.extrodot.org/) doesn't currently do. You may be surprised
by what sorts of suggestions we *could* incorporate, and just haven't
thought of or haven't realized they could be useful to somebody.
Frankly I'm surprised to see resistance to innovation on *this* list.
;-)

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