Re: conlang.org

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Charles wrote:

> Adam Parrish wrote:
>
> > I think that the most important thing that a
> > conlang.org site could do is provide web space for constructed language
> > descriptions (if only so I don't have to deal with all those annoying
> > pop-up windows at geocities -- aurgh).
>
> (Disable javascript!)
>
> The coolest thing IMO would be a web-board for threaded discussion
> much like the email list, but with better control over archives
> and the ability to read backward/sideward within a thread.
>
Well, I'd really hate to see the discussion from the mailing
list disappear to a web-based forum. I very much prefer to have
the messages delivered to my doorstep without having to be
permanently on-line. What I've seen from web-based discussion
forms (a few amateur efforts, Slashdot, the way you can read
messages on onelist (or was it egroups - I forget), I don't
think those interfaces can be as comfortable as ones own,
preferred email client.

> HTML would not be a problem then, obviously, leading to a
> renaissance of accented-vowel-conlangs, etc etc. Could be
> easily password-protected. Email-lists are not very "scalable",
> but a good web-board might be more so, I'm not sure. The next
> step would be a true news-server, which is certainly so;
> Linux, naturally, has a good one ...
>
I'd start out with a news server, and never bother with a web
interface. Still, that complicates things. Email is just so
very handy. One day we will all be able to send email using
unicode...

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt