>Mike,
>
>there's a free web-bot called www.listbot.com which seems to be free of
>catches, glitches, and charges (of course, it can't possibly be, if so,
>can't possibly last). It's an MSN (Microsoft and Nine Network, a local
media
>oligopolist).
>
>Naively
>Phil
I have used this to manage two lists of about 100 for over a year.
Relatively glitch-free (the software wasn't developed by Microsoft, they
just bought Listbot out) and fairly flexible, but pretty standard features -
nothing to set the heart beating faster!
Bruce
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Cole [mailto:mcole@weber.ucsd.edu]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2000 12:41
>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>> Subject: technology and XMCA
>>
>>
>>
>> I am totally open to invitations to move XMCA to some far away server
>> that will cut down on the overhead of the discussion and increase the
>> possiblity of creating some social intelligence martin. Right now, as
>> you can see, we simply bumble along with help from our friends.
>>
>> I tend personally to work at the loser end of the game (as in user is
>> loser) and work through a unix systtem that in unfriendly to
>> attachments.
>> By keeping my equipment primitive, relative, say, to the
>> equipment used
>> by some of my colleagues in the sciences, I run into all sorts of
>> glitches. It helps me to sympathize with my students who feel and are
>> left behind because that do not know how to log on from home and among
>> them those for whome the costs appear fearsome.
>>
>> If there were some way to accomodate many levels of access/expertise
>> and memory access as well, I am all for it. But as we all realize,
>> it is the continuity of people that is essential, the overlap
>> of generations. Which it no reason not to use the best tools you can
>> come up with!
>> mike
>>
>>
>
>
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