Re: COMP: Active?
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: COMP: Active?
  • From: L* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:41:48 -0500
I agree completely, Colleen. There are also the options of no-mail (reading messages in the archives) and a weekly? summary from hort.net.
I still have the photos group set to no-mail, dating back to when I was still on very slow internet connection, and the pictures were faster/easier to look at in the archives.
Bob, at one time there were folks who didn't want to be on the hort.net forums either because they thought it was an official AIS forum and for some reason, they didn't like that; <or> because they were here, got mad at somebody for this or that and left.
And back when the group was <very> active, with a <lot> of messages being posted every day, some got annoyed about that and left. Those folks probably prefer the more topical/narrowly focused internet thingies. 

On 1/7/2016 3:21 PM, Colleen wrote:

With a list as this, all Iris messages come to my inbox.  With a forum, I would have to take the time to log into it so when rushed, as I usually am, I would just put it off - read it wouldn't happen.  Even more off-putting, forums categorize messages by topic so I would have to check each category to see what was said.  Again, too time consuming.  With this list I can see what someone is talking about and if I want to I can hit the delete key.  Often though, a topic is raised that I would not have gone to on a forum, yet find it interesting.  So I think a list brings people together (rather than separate forum topics), is faster, and more informative.  If people want to spin off into study groups they still can.

Colleen NE Calif.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Robert Pries
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 5:46 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: [iris] Active?

Collen. Linda, and Shaub: I Prefer Iris talk over Facebook, I have never used a Forum so I am not sure the differences. I have had a couple of people suggest a forum for AIS and I had been considering proposing that to the AIS board. I felt I needed more understanding before I proposed it and since AIS just changed electronics chairs I wanted to give Bob Seaman time to learn his new job.

I also thought maybe it could be useful for the Iris Encyclopedia. I would love to have more feedback on how it evolves. One concern I had was if a forum was created would there be enough people using it or would it be embarrassingly slack like Iris talk has sadly become?

Bob Seaman did the PCN website and I believe it has a forum but again it did not seem that active. Of course PCNs are a rather specialized topic. I know with the number of e-mails I get every day I would not have the time to support a forum with lots of my own posts even if I would like to do so. So I ask everyone for guidance on this matter.
---Bob



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