Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

[Peter M. Brigham]

> On Sep 30, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
> I get the inability to search the archive for n00bs.  That's a problem.
> For those of us who receive these messages in one of our google accounts,
> it isn't a problem.  In my case I have a hair under 13,000 threads that I
> have received since my arrival in the LC community. I wonder if Edinburgh
> has something resembling a searchable index for the n00bs, though.

Nabble has a searchable index of the messages posted to the listserv:

http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/

> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Same here..... -1 for Google Chat.  I much prefer a listserv for the same
>> reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a
>> tool (email) that is in my face 24/7.
>> 
>> SKIP
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Rebbe <
>> matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Google Chat would be a NoGo for me.
>>> 
>>> My mail app is opened all the day anyway, so the mailing list is the best
>>> solution for me.
>>> I know that the forum is also a good source of help and knowledge and i
>> am
>>> trying to visit it as often as possible.
>>> Just today i installed an RSS reader to be up to date with new forum
>> posts.
>>> But the mailing list will be my number one source.
>>> Why, because i can read and respond very quick and easily.
>>> 
>>> Google Chat or any other web based system would stop me to participate in
>>> discussions or at least it would stop me to participate regularly in
>>> discussions.
>>> 
>>> But that´s just my opinion.
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>>> Am 30.09.2016 um 21:53 schrieb William Jamieson <
>>> williamdjamieson at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> I was raised with a computer, with facebook for my friends and google
>> as
>>> my
>>>> study guide. I don't really understand the use-list's format and have
>>> only
>>>> attempted to read it maybe 5 times in the 2 years I have been on it.
>>>> 
>>>> Forums are great but still remind me of my childhood and are generally
>>> used
>>>> for specific issues. I would really like a Slack thread that can be
>>>> indexed, but to ask people to move away from email might be a little
>> too
>>>> technological for most.
>>>> 
>>>> As a person who wants to be involved with the community, and seeing
>> that
>>>> the answers to a lot of problems and issues are contained in this
>>> massive,
>>>> unindexed, scattered, blob, of words that spans thousands of emails in
>> my
>>>> inbox, I would like to make a plea to use any alternative that works.
>>>> 
>>>> I understand that the use-list is for the OG's but let me ask you, at
>>> what
>>>> cost is it acceptable? Even for the OG's, let me ask you, how many
>>>> solutions pointers to the problems you have had do you think are
>>> contained
>>>> within the history of the use-list? Can you pull them up quickly in an
>>>> organized fashion?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> William D Jamieson
>>>> Amplifiid Education
>>>> Co-Founder
>>>> (408) 692-5356
>>>> www.amplifiideducation.com
>>>> williamdjamieson at gmail.com
>>>> <http://facebook.com/williamdjamieson>
>>>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamdjamieson>
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