On stringed lists, musical or otherwise

[Murli]

If someone is "stringing" this list, he/she is putting in a lot of
work.  It is possible to have a "stringed" (actually, the technical term is
"threaded" but what is a thread if not a string?) discussion web site that
also forward mail messages.  This list isn't one.  There is ***free***
software available that can be placed on a website to support such a form.

If this is what is desired, and someone is willing to set it up on their
website, this wouldn't take too much effort.  On the downside, someone will
have to take care of security issues  -- the website will be open to all
eyes, even those who don't belong to this list, or it can be closed, but
you will have to additionally log in each time to get messages.  It is a
"pull" rather than a "push" technology, and also sucks up more bandwidth.

So.

Murli


At 08:09 AM 9/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Has this been done?
>
> > I recently have heard that the list is not only
> > archived but also offered in strings on a website - it is not that I
> > disagree these things can be done - just don't do it without letting those
> > who contribute (or even lurk...) know  - it changes the rules without us
> > gnowing, or growing - Even we should remember to: show up and be present
> > (here I am), TELL THE TRUTH, follow what has HEART and meaning and Let it
> > go.
>
>
>I knew (as with any listserve) that the archive is available - Where is the
>website with the strings?
>
>I can say that there was a time when I thought that would be a nifty thing
>to do . . . and I began to work on it within my fledgling "Global Open Space
>Institute" site . . . and then I realized how cumbersome that whole thing
>would be. I can't imagine anyone having the time to actually do it. I do
>know that the "New and Improved" OST site (USA) has a marketplace which
>supports "stringed conversation" - but to my knowledge, there has not been
>an effort to string the archives of this listserve. Ah well for what it's
>worth, I agree that the changing of the rules arbitrarily is quite
>counter-productive and inhibiting to the group. Trust is compromised.
>
>So back to the original question - Has this really happened?
>
>b
>
>Barry Owen
>The Owen Group
>5518 Kendall Drive
>Nashville, TN 37209
>Phone 615-356-2888
>
>Simply living the FourFold Way in Open Space
>
>My Worldwide Open Space Web-site:
>
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>From  Fri Sep 10 19:46:42 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:46:42 -0500
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To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
From: Michael Herman <mherman at globalchicago.net>
Organization: Michael Herman Associates
Subject: Re: Self-organizing systems
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hello all,

as a major web-instigator lately, i
thought i should say that i've done
nothing with listserve archives.  as far
as i can tell, nothing has changed.  we
still send our replies out to almost 200
people and they do whatever they will
with them.  some of us have more or
fewer pieces of the last several years.
what we do with it is still up to every
one of us.  as for me, i have very few
of these pieces and have no plans to
organize anything.  we may have made
reference to listserv archives on the
new website, but i've never understood
this to mean a complete sort of set,
rather just snapshots of some of the
highlight questions and answers.  anyone
who's been getting the list could
already be posting/using any of the
language/stories posted over the last
years.  the new website was built to
accommodate possibilities... in this
case i think it has just pointed out
what has been 'possible' all along,
remains possible now and into the
future, but is not necessarily any more
probable than it has been all along.
long live the listserve... and may every
message rest in peace!!  :-)  m


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