Scripting conference - Properties stack uploaded (Kat)

[Kat]

Marielle Lange <M.Lange at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

    Dear Kat,

    About http://rugusa.linguistix.net Intrigued by the name, I followed
    the link (I
    am a psycholinguist).


Small world (although lots of s/w developers seem to have a Linguistics 
background). I have a B.A. in the subject from Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa. 
My studies never progressed far enough for me to be a hyphenated 
Linguist, but my emphasis was in A.I. and pycholinguistics from the 
perspective of (esp. language-) learning mechanisms and strategies. I 
got distracted by CD-R technology about a dozen years ago, though, and 
am only now returning to those roots.

    RevUG USA Wiki: "This is the prototype for a Wiki homepage for
    Revolution User
    Groups USA."

    Good idea to create a wiki. It's good to see the community extending its
    presence on the web too. But does its title means that only
    Americans are
    invited to participate? :-( I thought wikis were about open
    collaboration,
    without the usual frontiers (hierarchy or borders).


I'm sure we have no intention of being "exclusive" but the original 
purpose of this site was actually to support the organization of a 
Southeastern US Rev User Group, then it expanded to included maybe the 
eastern US, or maybe all the US (except there's already a couple of 
other groups out there).  Anyone from the Rev community is of course 
welcome to participate, and we'd be very happy to have your input!  The 
Web, as you've noted, has no borders.



     >From wiki owner to wiki owner, I would really recommend you use
    (unrestricted)
    registration... this is to prevent  automatic spam like this:
    http://wiki.ael.be/rmll2003/index.php/SandBox, from happening.


Thanks for the suggestion. I know spamming is a problem -- I've faced 
that on some of the blogs I run. We may need to lock it down at some 
point, but right now we're trying to keep it simple.  I do monitor the 
site regularly (using the RSS feed), so if we did get an attack it could 
be controlled quickly. And since it's on a different port from 80 or 
8080, I don't think auto-spamming is that likely to happen anyway.  Most 
'bots are pretty limited in scope, and exploring different ports may be 
beyond them. This particular wiki lives in RAM, anyway. There are no 
static pages to be indexed or database to be corrupted. That makes it 
more difficult to promote, but at the same time perhaps a little more 
secure.

Thanks for your note, and for visiting our Rev UG wiki!  I hope you'll 
come back soon.

Cheers,
Kat