RE: Re: Re: Proposal for mailing list versus wiki

> From: Paul Prescod

> Mark Hahn wrote:
> 
> >...
> > 
> > OK, but who is going to manage the WIKI?  I predicit a slow death.
> > 
> > Would you volunteer?
> 
> By the way: the more we use the wiki for every discussion the more 
> effort it will take to manage. With mailing lists, old 
> discussions just 
> scroll of into the sunset. With wikis, you have to manually move them.
> 
> I propose: Mailing lists for transactional, transient 
> discussions. Wikis 
> for building documents that are meant to last...

Manually moving a wiki involves almost no effort.

I have an idea for a wiki proposal that I think no one will be able to
argue with.  I'll put it up on the wiki of course :-)