[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 28, Issue 5

Matthew Wild mwild1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 17:11:20 BST 2007


Has anyone seen Pibb.com? It's a cross between realtime chat, forums, and to
an extent mailing lists. It's very simple to create a group, and what's
more, it uses OpenID...

On 8/3/07, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
>
> Pete Stean wrote:
> > On the document sharing issue, you have considered using a shared
> web-space
> > to do this? Google offer a solution I think... and it's so 21st
> century  :)
> >
> > I have to say, on the note re mailing lists - I *hate* them - they have
> such
> > limited functionality it's embarassing. I'm only on this mailing list
> > because it's the chosen method of the ubuntu-uk community, if I had a
> choice
> > we'd be a facebook group, or have an online forum. For one thing,
> threads
> > can be incredibly difficult to follow on a serial email list like this
> > one...
>
> I use Thunderbird and set to see threaded views. It is remarkably easy
> to see the context, even without reading any actual mails!
>
> I very much appreciate using email lists, and only ever use online
> displays if there is no choice, and I have to be desperate then
> anyway, or it does not get looked at.
>
> I am on just a lot of lists and groups, and on line (web based)
> approach would be severely limiting.
>
> With lists  - using the threaded context - it is very easy to see what
> is happening, and where my attention needs to go - in the several
> short attention spans that I use that is.
> --
> alan cocks
> Kubuntu user#10391
>
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>
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