With the volume of mail increasing and the fact that teleconferences
can't be attended by everyone, should we re-examine the idea of using
some electronic threaded forum software?
In talking with Keith Moore, it should have a feature where a subscriber
can get any posting as a mail message and can input any response as a mail
message.
Does such a forum exist?
Should we use it?
Thanks,
Tom
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>To: Tom Hastings <hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com>
>Subject: Re: IPP> ADM - Conference calls
>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:03:54 PDT
>From: "Scott Lawrence" <lawrence at agranat.com>
>>>>>>>> "TH" == Tom Hastings <hastings at cp10.es.xerox.com> writes:
>>TH> Sorry about this expense. We need your expertise and expericence
>TH> with HTTP especially. Look for mail messages that start with
>TH> "IPP> PRO -" which means the protocol. That is the area that may
>TH> be the most interesting to you. So you may only need to call in
>TH> on a PRO call between meetings.
>> I'd figured out your Subject convention this morning.
>> I'm interested in why this group has chosen to use conference calls
> in preference to the mailing lists everyone else uses. Aside from the
> expense, there is also the problem that you have no archive to refer
> to later - a real problem for someone entering the process after it
> has been under way for a while, and usefull when previously closed
> issues get re-raised months or years later.
We do have miniutes of all teleconferences, which helps a lot.
>> I don't expect to join even the PRO calls very often, I'm afraid,
> but I'll do what I can by mail and I'll be at the IETF meetings. If
> there are working meetings of the WG between times, I may be able to
> be there if it looks like there will be HTTP related work going on.
>>--
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