RE: Suggestion to the LD mailing list. (UPDATED)

[Todd Pafford <galen@erols.com>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Alejandro Martínez wrote:
> what I´m talking about, I guess many of you have used a Bulletin Board 
> service before but for those who haven´t please check those ´cause I 
>really 
> think that if this list moves to a BB format it will be more benefical 
>for 
> both users and the LD site itself ´cause the Lopper´s Delight web page 
>will 
> have more hits per day and that´s good ´cause more people would see the 
> advertising banners that now Kim is starting to include which I think is 
>a 
> good idea to make the site autosufficient and that autosufficiency is 
> something that Kim himself mentioned on the "LD sells out" email.

Let me just put in my vote against a web based BBoard by saying: Ugh.  I
can't stand those things.  They're an inefficient way to deliver text.
My advice is to get a decent mail client that'll sort by threads, filter
messages, and shuttle the mail off into various folders accordingly.  The
Looper's Delight really doesn't have /that/ much traffic.

Having said that, I do like newsgroups and BBoards in general.  My problem
is the web interface.  Not everything works well when webified, but
apparently all those webmasters out there think so.  The hypertext
transfer protocol is simply inefficient at delivering hundreds of short
messages.  For example, let's say I'm browsing my local usenet news
server.  My connection to that server is maintained while I read the
groups.  On the contrary, every time I fetch a page from an http server, I
have to reestablish the connection to the server.  Often, with short
messages, the connection process takes longer than actually delivering the
message.  For a small number of messages, this really isn't a big deal,
but for a moderate to large sized list, the reconnection time compounds
into one giant waste of time.  (Of course, the problem with usenet is the
signal to noise ratio, spammers, etc.)

Enough for now.

How 'bout a little loop content:
I saw Phish on sunday and was delighted to hear Trey (guitar) using his
two Boomerangs to full effect.  Some very nice ambient and textural loop
work during a few of the jams.

Loop On...and on...and on...and on...and on....

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 to man as it is, infinite."  -- William Blake

Todd Pafford   galen@erols.com