KISS & tell (was: relative merits)

From: david_eddy_spicer@harvard.edu
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 18:21:10 PST


The discussion of Gordon's paper convinced me that an xmca-sponsored course
should be via listserv (but off of the list itself). What impressed me most
as a newbie to this list but moderator of several others were the existing
norms around discussion, which included things like care with message
headers and quoting enough context to keep a thread continuous as other
threads wove in and out. As others know, I'm sure, this kind of awareness
can take a long time to root. For simplicity's sake, I'm in favor of
spawning, norms and all.

I agree with Nate about Yahoo and the price, paid in spam, of parting with
your vital stats to gain access to the web-based features (list & doc
archive, calendar, etc.). I don't know about Syllabase (Jim's offer), but
if it has listserv capabilities, easy administration, and an archive,
perhaps that's the answer.

David

                                                                                                                                      
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The Scribner article has been digitized and whittled down in size to 232k
as a
PDF file -- so it is sendable over email. A couple of pages have not been
completely pushed to text through OCR. In part some scans were not good
enough and in part there is some handwriting over the text in red ink,
confusing the ocr algorithm. It would actually be faster to retype what
remains than continue to push the OCR strategy.

Nevertheless, the entire paper is digitized, although about 10% of the text

appears in image format. The entire thing is printable, so it can be put
on
the list of available papers.

I took a look at the knowledge forum demo -- the big drawbacks are that 1)
everything is stored on the server and 2) there is only browser (or client)

access. That means that higher bandwidth than email is required, and the
content is not distributed to local machines through email messages -- one
cannot work offline or use the advantages of local email clients.

Personally, the KF server seems to have trouble serving up web pages to my
open-source and much preferred browser.

bb

On Friday 29 November 2002 09:57 am, Mike Cole wrote to all of us:
> Nate-- As I said yesterday, I do not feel competent to choose among the
> alternatives. I'll keep working at getting articles available. May the
xmca
> cogniscenti (sp?) come up with the best of all possible plans.
> mike
> .,



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