Proposal - the use-revolution list

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Second the motion to keep it as a list. We are missing one thing 
though: search capabilities for the past archives. Google doesn't seem 
to keep up with indexing the mail list archives and I really don't have 
time to read all these posts, but then when you need to know something 
chances are it has been well clarified here some time or other... I 
think 3 years ago Run Rev's list serve had search capabilities, but now 
it doesn't. So maybe there is a happy medium where the list is kept as 
it is but we get a more robust archive mechanism online? Or perhaps 
there is a way to make Google "believe" that Run Rev is worth indexing 
weekly. They index all our sites weekly...


On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 08:29  AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

>> I'm no expert on Web forums but have some observations.  IMO, a "best 
>> of
>> both worlds" solution would be to have a Web based board that sends 
>> email.
>> For myself, the appeal of email (as opposed to a forum) is that I 
>> don't have
>> to go searching for new messages, determine what I've read and what I
>> haven't, make sure I respond in the correct folder, etc.
>
> I have to agree. Web boards are slow and tedious, they take far longer 
> to load into my browser than email takes to arrive, and I don't have 
> the time to click-and-load a bunch of folders and messages. If I get 
> busy, I never sign on. On the other hand, my email gets sorted as it 
> arrives in my inbox and I can quickly scan through the resulting list. 
> I am much less likely to participate in a web forum.

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
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