[GreenKeys] greenkeys list content survey

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

Hello Greenkeyers:

On 16 April 2013 13:53,  <gil at baudot.net> wrote:
> 1)  We have a great group of folks here on greenkeys, with a lot of great
> tty knowledge.
>
I concur.


> 6)  We have a diverse group and need to respect that fact.  Politics is to
> be avoided.  While there is nothing wrong with something patriotic here and
> there, keep it non-partisan.  It has ballooned into a mess here before, and
> nobody wins.  Religion, sexual-orientation, general nastiness of any kind --
> also to be avoided.
>
Didn't some etiquette writer once write that the topics best avoided
in polite conversation are sex, religion, politics and money?


> 7)  I think the daily-digest is useless.  When folks reply to it and don't
> change the subject line, it makes it very difficult to follow a thread, and
> when they leave the entire digest in the email it is ridiculous.
>
Urgh... daily digests are the most useless idea possible. They seem
more useful for someone who is reading the list but not replying to
it.


> 8)  This email list is an old and tired format anyway.  I would rather see a
> modern forum using phpBB or something, so threads are well-defined, you can
> choose to subscribe to a thread or not, can choose to get an email notice
> when there is a new post on a thread you are following, it is easy to branch
> into a new thread when the topic morphs a bit, and everything is easily
> search-able.  If you don't want email alerts, you can just go to the main
> forum page with all the thread topics, see the most-recent posts at the top,
> check out the ones in which you are interested and ignore the others.  It
> can be set up with categories that make sense, for example, Model-14-15-19,
> Model-28, Creed, General-History, TTY-Supplies, Interfacing...and maybe one
> for Off-Topic :)  I'd be happy to provide hosting space for a more modern
> greenkeys forum if you guys are interested and someone who knows how to set
> one up helps out.  Some examples:
> http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/
> http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/
> http://www.microchip.com/forums/
>
NO, NONONONONONONONO. phpBB forums are painful; plus unless your
moderators are there constantly, you come back in the morning to about
ninety million "BUY CHEAP VIAGRA" or similar spam posts -- because
they *WILL* get through any CAPTCHA that exists.



> A)  What you like about greenkeys.
It's an interesting list full of interesting people.


> B)  What you don't like about greenkeys.
Daily digest mode which is utterly useless.


> C)  What you would change about greenkeys.
Remove daily digest. Perhaps do something akin to what the ClassicCmp
mailing lists did? Create a GreenkeysTalk and GreenkeysTech
(corresponding to the ClassicCmp CCTalk (has on and off topic
responses) and CCTech (only on-top post)).


Cheers,
Christian Gauger-Cosgrove