SUO: One Ring-Binder To Rule Them All
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John,
Thanks for the chuckle. I really needed that.
I share your nostalgia for the old page-turners,
but really, I think that it's past time that all
of us hip-replaced old dudes move on to new ways
of using these computational media in more active,
collabyrinthine, and dia-logically interactive ways,
instead of just emulating and idolizing our old file
cabinents full of deadwood samplers of our wasted youth.
I suggest that people who can't stand the heat
should not spend their mental vacation time on
sunny Mount Mordor.
Jon Awbrey
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John F. Sowa wrote:
>
> Dear Matthew,
>
> I agree with you that the guidelines for posting some things
> to SUO list and other things to a web folder should apply
> to all SUO members "with one rule for all":
>
> MW> I do not see this as forcing some people to sit on one
> > side or the other. Only as a way of being more effective
> > with one rule for all.
>
> The distinction should be that all frequent posters should
> request and be allocated a folder on the SUO web site.
> As guidelines for what goes in the folders, I suggest:
>
> 1. All tutorials, lengthy presentations, and extended
> discussions that go into excruciating detail (such as
> the recent discussions of nominalism and realism that
> Tom and I have engaged in) should be posted to a folder.
>
> 2. The primary SUO list should be reserved for the following
> kinds of material:
>
> a) New issues of relevance to the SUO. Any member should
> be able to decide for himself or herself what issues
> are relevant. But anyone else may suggest that any
> particular discussion should be moved to a folder.
>
> b) Amy member should be allowed (in fact, encourged) to
> make short comments and responses to current issues.
> Sometimes, what starts out as a short comment grows
> into a lengthy discussion, and anyone on the SUO list,
> especially the participants in the debate, should be
> able to suggest that it be continued in folder mode.
>
> c) News items about anything relevant to the SUO.
> Sometimes these items may contain a URL pointing
> either to an SUO folder page or to some outside
> web site.
>
> d) Periodic updates about subjects that have been
> posted to a folder with the URL of the web page.
> These postings should also include some excerpts
> from the web page that would give the readers
> some idea of topic and the issues being discussed.
>
> This policy should eliminate the need for special discussion
> lists for various topics, such as the ONT list. What gets
> posted to a folder should include all the relevant interchanges,
> so that anybody who was interested could see the full discussion.
>
> The policy of what goes to a folder or to the general list would
> be decided by each sender, guided by common rules of courtesy
> in trying to avoid repeated requests to move discussions offline.
>
> John Sowa
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