[Manifold-l] New list location?

[David Brubacher]

Before giving up the forum to the factory I had planned on implementing the ability to email posts to the forum and subscribing to weekly or daily summations. It is a solved problem so shouldn't be to hard to do.

Truth be told I miss running georeference...

David M Brubacher OLS OLIP
Geomatica Inc. featuring MapDirector, our Manifold IMS and Custom Web Portal Solution 
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Dimitri Rotow" <dar at manifold.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:03:07 
To:<manifold-l at lists.directionsmag.com>
Subject: [Manifold-l] New list location?

To change the thread from what it was...

> I don't think it is necessarily one of old dogs having to 
> learn new tricks but that a specific pattern of use suits 
> particular people and not others.
> I am all for both the forum AND an email list that is linked 
> to it because most of the activity is on the forum. It would 
> be nice but it is in Manifold.Net's hands and not mine.
>

We liked the idea of directionsmag.com hosting the list because then it at
least had a chance to be something that is run by a third party that is not
under factory control.

I think at the present time we'd be reluctant to host a list out of
manifold.net.  There are two main reasons for that:  First, we still like
the idea of a third party neutral ground.  Second, we have cast our
corporate lot with the forum, because that has good opportunities for
connectivity to other things (such as searchable knowledge bases) in a
structured way.  Anyone at manifold.net who has the time and ability for
this is going to work on the forum and not on establishing a new list.

Our deal with directionsmag.com was that they could set up a list that used
our registered trademark as part of the name if we had some loose control
over it, that is, to at least have the list be about Manifold System.  They
ended up not being able to do some admin tasks (for lack of resources) so
our webmastering crew took over a small part of it, such as doing some
moderation requests reviews and the like.  But other than that they run all
the infrastructure and the servers.

If someone wants to do a list in some other venue, I'd offer the following
advice:

1. Any neutral venue except a Google-hosted venue is fine by us.  For
example, I think there is the possibility of doing something in Microsoft or
Yahoo groups.  Being such total Microsoft nerds we'd obviously prefer
something Microsoft. :-)

2. If it uses "Manifold" in the name then we have to have legal control over
it with webmaster at manifold.net as the administrator.

As much as I like email lists I think their day is drawing to a close.  I'm
coming to believe the right choice is simply to move to the forum and use
that.

Cheers,

Dimitri

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