Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt Users Message Board (was: Cobalt user chatroom????)

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 4/9/01 11:33 PM -0700, you wrote:
> Likely it would work and very well... Especially with a searchable format
> like the UBB system.. not really "chat" dunno if anyone has ever tried to
> watch an actual chat room but that would be nutty.. a message board would
> be very cool, stop cluttering up the mail box and has anyone thought about
> the bandwidth we use up by receiving all these mails <g>
>
> It would take someone with a box that does not and will not have a lot of
> traffic on it.. and the investment for UBB (about $249. last time I looked)

I'm just getting started in business, so I know I don't have a lot of 
traffic... the problem is that I also don't have a lot of bandwidth. :( But 
I'm willing to put time and effort into making this work. Like most other 
things, it will teach me things that will later be useful.

> I don't know about anyone else, but not reading a message board post is a
> lot easier for me than to not open and read an email.. scanning the board
> for relevant subjects and then reading the one's that sound good...

The whole mail<->board thing gets rehashed every so often. My take is that 
email arrives in my box and I can read it on the plane, in the car, and 
other offline places, which means I participate triple what I could other 
ways. However, I am most willing to try a board format and see if we can 
make it work.

The only *big* issue is that I strongly feel Cobalt should make this an 
official resource, since most who head for the board wouldn't want to also 
get the list, and I wouldn't want a boatload of newbies to arrive at an 
empty list and get no help. I think, for example, that we could get a group 
together, organize the damn thing, and then petition Cobalt to provide one 
server on which we can host the mailing list for them *and* the board and 
nothing else. (This would also provide better service for the list...)

I have come to strongly agree that the creation of additional resources is 
nice, but that the core set (so far, just this list) needs to be as 
concentrated as possible so no one has to "live" in three communities and 
we don't dilute the talent and knowledge available.

That being said, I will fully support an initiative that converges with my 
philosophical point of view outlined above. I will *not* take the lead, as 
I am presently so far overcommitted it's not even funny. But let me know 
and I'll play on the team.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx