RE: Carbon mailing list?

As I said earlier. I'm willing to put up a carbon website with a forum (with
email notification). Sandy, I could give you admin permissions to put up
and/or manage content. I have the software and the hosting account already.
It would just be a matter of installing the forum (10 minutes of work),
adding whatever domains we want to point at it. Someone today said they had
already grabbed carbonprinting.org and .net. I'd just need to have them
pointed at my hosting company.

>From that point on it would be just a matter of putting up whatever content
we want on it. I can set it up so we can post files and/or use a word like
interface online.

Steve Allen

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-carbon@spitbite.org [mailto:owner-carbon@spitbite.org] On Behalf
Of Sandy King
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:05 PM
To: carbon@spitbite.org
Subject: Re: [carbon] Carbon mailing list?

Hi Eric,

So what do you think about David's offer to set up a web site from his
place.

I like the idea of keeping the list server technology, but we might
benefit from a web site as well.

Perhaps we could talk by phone about this. I really appreciate the
fact that you have kept this site alive and hope to have your
cooperation on any further moves.

Best,

Sandy

At 10:41 PM -0800 4/3/08, Eric S. Theise wrote:
>Sandy King writes:
>> The beauty of the carbon list is that it is free from commercial use.
>> Is there any way we might transfer the list and archives to another
>> venue?
>>
>> I would really like to see a carbon list or web site functioning
>> outside of any commercial interests.
>
>Well, this list/this venue, could be/could have been, quite a lot
>of things. It was surprising to me that Mr. Sullivan could pied-piper
>the carbon printing community away from the list with his forum so
>easily, and, frankly, it was surreal when he addressed me abstractly
>as the "present owner of this system" last May.
>
>Hello, you know me, I am easily ascertained, my name is "Eric".
>
>And color me naive and idealistic, but the owners of this system
>are the active posters (jury's out on the lurkers). Me, I am a
>technical facilitator, making sure that the messages get through
>and that the spam does not; that archives are available and searchable
>24/7; and that when people ask for a feature, I assess its feasibility
>and implement accordingly.
>
>I asked for ideas and submissions; Halvor Bjorngard and Katayoun
>Dowlatshahi contributed pdfs for a "carbon library", that was it.
>
>Look:
>
>There's no reason to close the list if it is useful to the community,
>but: "use or lose it". If people see [carbon] and groan in
>anticipation, I want no part of it, and we are close to this.
>
>Sloganeering from Howard Rheingold, the Whole Earth Review, and The
>WELL, a decade or more ago:
>
> "what it is is up to us."
>
>So it goes with [carbon].
>
>--Eric
>
>P.S.
>
>> We are about to open an web site for S&S
>> holders and I would like to save the archives on that site.
>
>I am ignorant; "S&S holders", I don't know what this means.
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Received on Fri Apr 4 17:31:52 2008