On Mon, 8 May 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 03:53:53AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Why is the mailing-list so inefficient? What can be done to improve the mailing-list? Are there affective issues? If so, we might need a Simple Hug Transfer Protocol.
Don't you find that you learn a lot at conferences? I reckon that there is no better search engine than asking a question of an expert, face to face.
If this were really the case, teleconferences would be the super craze just about right now. But anyway: I'm not arguing that conferences are useless, and even if people really learn a lot more at conferences, it doesn't mean that mailing-list interaction can't be improved. So do you have suggestions for more efficient mailing-list interactions?
How about a non-verbal markup language? (Isn't the niche that smileys were made to fill?)
This is simply because of the bandwidth involved. The speed at which you can hone your request using conversation, body language, etc, is much more efficient than IRC, mailing lists, or any other computer based communications medium that we currently use.
How do you say "Intel/AMD isn't going to abandon SSE any day now and it's not an excuse that you can give to me" using bodylanguage in a way that my interlocutor will understand that he can't BS me on this? Cause if bodylanguage can't do that for me, then I don't think it's so great ;-)
And when I say "bodylanguage", I consider that grabbing someone by the necktie is sort of cheating.
_ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju | Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada