[Wikipedia-l] I like BBS:es

Wed May 7 22:26:01 UTC 2003

On Wed, 7 May 2003 11:46:37 -0700, Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> gave 
utterance to the following:

> Axel Boldt wrote:
>> Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
>> > The Cunctator wrote:
>>
>> > > 3. Better archives.
>> > > Better in what ways?
>>
>> Searchable.
>
> That's good.  What else?
>
Its not a push medium: you can take it or leave it.
With the ML it is all or nothing - you have to go through the mail, wait, 
confirm process each time  you want to go on or off a list.

While talk pages are also non-push, I think they are very ill-suited to 
discussions where threads are more than one or two levels deep - and unless 
you check the history you don't know if anyone has been edited.
-- 
Richard Grevers
Let's visit tombs said Tom cryptically