OpenEuphoria

Re: irc channel

• Posted by Mind Ventures <mventure at IO.COM> Jan 17, 1997
• 1491 views

I think the initial topic of an IRC channel was brought up because
someone (sorry, I deleted the message so I don't know who it was)
was concerned about the amount of mail being generated here. I
personally prefer newsgroups because I don't get an annoying "ding"
whenever somebody posts a message to a newsgroup like I do with
email. Realistically, the amount of mail I get from the Euphoria
list server is just a drop in the bucket compared to other lists
I'm on so I don't think it's much of a problem (for me). I do
still like the idea of a newsgroup possibly in addition to the
mailing list. An IRC wouldn't be bad either if we did it at
set times for group-type discussions but having one open all the
time would just mean that 90% of the time when you tried to get
a response, you wouldn't.

I don't know if this list server has a digest option or not but
many do so that you can request a digest to be delivered once a
day or once a week instead of all the individual messages. If
somebody'd rather get the mail in bursts instead of one message at
a time, they may want to look into this. I don't want to imply
that the list should be cancelled or anything like that because I
think it's a great resource. I'm very new to Euphoria and haven't
don't anything worth posting yet nor am I able to answer questions
outside the scope of general programming (not specific to Euphoria)
however, if we started using a newsgroup for some of these discussions,
it would make more people aware of Euphoria and spread the user
base.

Chuck