I am really new to this list and know little about Grass; yet.
However, I would be more than willing to work with those at Baylor to try
and keep this list running on that box; and more importantly try to
integrate the message list into the new message board as a means of gaining
a searchable archive for the list.
-----Original Message-----
From: R. Joe Brandon [mailto:rjoe@cast.uark.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 12:56 PM
To: grass@cecer.army.mil
Subject: Re: Attention GRASS Users!
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
Mailinglists still are the best choice for this kind of interaction.
MUA (mail user agents) have been developed for years and no web
interface can replace the power of this tools.If you wanted an additional web interface, that would be very good, too.
Just replacing the mailinglists with a webbased discussion interface
will be more usefull in some respects and less usefull in other
respects, but overall you will loose usability over a mailinglists
with webarchive.
Bernhard is correct I believe. But the two mediums compliment each
other, but do not replace each other. As I understand the original
message CERL wants/nneds to shut down the listserve? Can the GRASS team at
Baylor not set up a new one to compliment the web based medium? I for
one would like to see both.
One option if no one at Baylor or another server (hint hint hint) has the
time/resoruces would be to use http://www.onelist.com which is a free
mailing
listserver which archives up 5-10 megs of messages (I forget which).
Just set up the list, move your subscirbers over, and viola, everything
is running. The only draw backs are A: putting up with three lines of
advertisement at
the top of each message, and B: the daily digests are grouped by date,
not subject so sorting can be a problem. However if the Grass list is to
die and there is no one to pick up the torch I would be happy to set this
onelist up if a few other folks wanted to help out. Really should be low
maintenance. I currently manage a number of lists there and it takes
little of my time.
Thoughts, comments?
R. Joe