Re: Carbon mailing list?

Steve, send me an e-mail at dfoy@adox.net with details and I'll point
the domains there.

David Foy

Steve Allen wrote:
> 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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