RE: eBook Community's Twelfth Anniversary: State of The Group Message

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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Noring
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] eBook Community's Twelfth Anniversary: State
of The Group Message

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This is what I suggested in my prior message: that we build upon the
traditional "listserv" that underpins this group.

As noted:

1) YahooGroups is a "web forum" overlay (albeit not that good) to the
   core "listserv". Some TeBC subscribers may not even realize this.

2) One may get RSS feeds of new messages thus not requiring one to
   receive the messages by email or to visit Yahoo's web interface to
   look for new messages.

3) It is intriguing to build other "web interfaces" to the core
   "listserv".

and to add:

4) Brenna's suggestion of a blog is very intriguing. Maybe a blog
   devoted for smaller ebook publishers and self-published authors to
   have a place to write their articles. We could call it the eBook
   Community blog.

   (Now David's TeleRead is actually a good place for such articles,
   since David has opened up his blog for new writers, so long as they
   follow his pretty minimal requirements. So that could be the eBook
   Community's blog. David, what sayest thou?)


Anyway, to summarize, I don't see we are stuck in an either/or
situation, but rather have a whole grab-bag of possiblities.

Jon Noring
TeBC Moderator

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I am _really_ curious to see if you can get a consensus on what a "good web
interface" for forums is. The software I use is built on top of NNTP with
email listsrv so you can access it as NNTP, listserv, RSS or Web. And I have
the source code so it can be customized. But nobody can agree on what the
Web interface should be like. Except maybe the particular forum they are
used to using. 

Look forward to the discussion. :-)





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