OpenEuphoria

RE: New Euphoria Users Website

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrognet.net> Nov 14, 2002
• 456 views

Chris Bensler wrote:
> > The fact that the mailing list is docile, is nothing unusual, it's a 
> > characteristic of the community style.
> 
> As a prime example of what I'm talking about. How many of you replied to 
> 
> the "Popularity Contest"? How many of you are gonna sit there on yer 
> tush and say "yeah, what a great idea", and how many of you are gonna 
> actually get out of yer chair, and stand up for what you want!?
> 
> This idea is NOT a new idea. I've proposed it before, a _few_ times 
> already. There is no reason we can't do it, except for the fact that 
> either:
> A:// people are too lazy to care
> B:// due to the nature of the mailing list, we can't collaborate well 
> enough to decide on anything
> C:// people simply _don't_ care
> 
> I think I saw a total of 3 or 4 replies, and none of them offered their 
> donations, only 'better' ideas. It doesn't matter how good the idea is, 
> if that's all it will ever be.
> 
> 
> Prove me wrong.
> 
> 

Chris:

  We are on this list because YOU wanted to move to this list !
  Here is an excerpt from and old post that I qoute.

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Date:         Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:53:13 -0500
From: Robert Craig <rds at RAPIDEUPHORIA.COM>
Organization: Rapid Deployment Software
Subject:      Moving The List
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU

Chris Bensler set up a mailing list called EUforum
at topica.com and he invited me to check it out.
Over the past several days, I've tested all the features
and it looks very good. It has an archive with searching,
a Web interface for posting or viewing messages,
plus the usual immediate, or digested e-mail distribution
and posting. It has everything that this list has.

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  What was the point of moving to this list ? You argued that
  it would improve the list at that time and now you want to
  create another list.
  Not every user is interested in everything that you are
  interested in. You seem to think that you are the only person
  on the list who has correct method of doing things and the
  other users can't collaborate well enough to decide on anything.
  Some of your code is same type of code that was used in libraries
  that I and many users wrote 3 years ago, so what is so new about
  your contributions ?

  Fragmenting the list is not helping Euphoria or any user on
  this list.
  
Bernie