On-Rev / Off-Rev

[Richmond Mathewson]

Thanks Sarah,
  must have missed that udring one of my "yogic sleeps".  :)

Of course, we could use this to get off onto an endless (and, probably 
ultimately,
fruitless) discussion about the desktop IDE versus the language.

What I am very interested to know is when the language "took flight" and
became completely independent of the desktop IDE . . . .

Thanks again, Richmond.

Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Richmond Mathewson
> <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am beginning to wonder if there should not be a second Use-List for
>> those people who use the On-Rev service, so that those off us who
>> don't, don't have our in-boxes flooded by messages that are not all
>> that relevant to what we are doing.
>>     
>
> Hi Richmond,
>
> There has already been quite a lot of discussion about this point, so
> I will quote you the "official" RunRev response:
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Bill Marriott <wjm at wjm.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> We have a forum set up for users of on-Rev at forums.on-rev.com -- this is
>> the ideal spot for the latest news/announcements, discussing on-Rev,
>> technical issues with it, usage concerns, etc.
>>
>> For example, information about accessing sites placed at the root level of
>> your hierarchy (that I just reposted here) was originally posted to the
>> on-Rev forums on Apr 24.
>>
>> However, we have no problem with folks discussing on-Rev here. The use-rev
>> list is very simply for "using Revolution." And we consider our product to
>> be the language, not merely the desktop IDE. The on-Rev service is obviously
>> a Revolution-based product. Just because it's a subscription service doesn't
>> matter; people obviously discuss Enteprise-specific issues, even though not
>> everyone owns Enterprise. So consider discussions about on-Rev officially
>> on-topic.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill Marriott
>> runrev marketing guy
>>     
>
>
> Revolution has always had such a broad array of capabilities that,
> inevitably, there will be threads that are of no interest to lots of
> people reading the list. Personally, there are threads that I merely
> skim, or ignore completely, but I know that if/when I need to use a
> particular feature, it is very likely that there will be some info in
> the list archives, even if I ignored it at the time.
>
> If people prefer, maybe we could all put [On-Rev] in the subjects of
> On-Rev emails, so that they can be easily filtered out by those not
> wanting to learn about that particular aspect of Revolution yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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