X-Message-Number: 16863 From: "Trygve Bauge" <> Subject: How to improve Cryonet Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 02:53:57 +0200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004E_01C10434.92609C20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The nice thing about internet is that so many forums are not edited. In the old days before internet, there were usually only edited forums. Even the letters to the editor sections in the newspapers were selected by some editor. With internet everyone suddenly has a chance to publish not just their own website or their own forum, or to their own e-mail list, but also to large forums shared with lots of other people with some common interest. I like that, as long as one stay on topic, which is not really a contradiction. But just a way of stating that internet has brought forth forums where anyone is free to post, and where posters are not kicked off as long as they stay on topic. That is different from forums where some editor selects what few posts that will be posted. And it is also different from forums where anyone can post any static they want. Thus, my suggestion is that we keep Cryonet as a forum for any cryonics related post. We might try to improve cryonet so that it can handle treads, and maybe split it in one letter circle for announcements and one where these and other cryonics related topics can be debated. Or we might at least see if we can find a way to increase cryonets capacity by getting 2 digests a day. Other improvements might be to improve the content list so one easily can jump from any content entry to the actual article and doesn't have to scroll through the whole digest. Conclusion is: Individual websites are fine, and each person their own forum is o.k. Put still there should be a place for large forums that are dedicated to specific topics, and seen by many people,and where anyone can post anything that is on topic. The challenge is just to make it easier for such forums to handle large traffic, and make it easier for people to navigate within such forums. e.g. make it easier for the subscribers to such forums to navigate within a lot of traffic. Sincerely. Trygve Bauge ------=_NextPart_000_004E_01C10434.92609C20 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16863