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Sunir, after reading the first lines of this page, I applied for joining the mailing list. After having sent my email, I read on here and realized, that you possibly won't continue it, but other wikizens showed their interest in some continuation. So I publish here my email, that contains some arguments for a mailing list, perhaps on Google?
Subject: May I join the mailing list please.
may I join the mailing list. I think, I have something found, that can be better presented in the mailing-list, than on the Wiki: it is the email-forwarding of annotated wiki pages, neatly formatted with all the links left intact.
Sometimes a wikipage is in threadmode a longer time, before it stabilizes into document mode. This transitional phase could imho nicely handled with archived, bookmarked, forwarded clips.
It is probably not only an additional safety rope, but also a tool to attract collaboration with new friendly, constructive people of external communities. Another argument is, that it is much faster (in preliminary stages) to add new annotations than to modify wiki pages in the classical way.
Best of all, the addressee even need not be already a diigo member to experience some attractive properties of the diigo-system, before s/he gets (hopefully) convinced.
The mailing list is kind of dead right now. It's being attacked by a spammer, so I've locked down memberships because I don't have the bandwidth to deal with it.
The mailing list is meant to be a major news announcement list. It could change, but that's its purpose at the moment. Since its death by spam, I've kind of given up on that.
What kind of stuff do you want to forward?
I am sorry, to hear from you about those spam attacks. The stuff, I want to forward, are annotated wiki-pages (in different wikis) that help (hopefully) to strengthen the different collaborating wiki[-communitie]s and their members.
This is a daunting task, that can only be tackled by "many hands". Do you have a gmail address? If not and you wish it, it would be an honour for me, to invite you to my friend's list. (In case, you don't know, GoogleMail? has ample free space, enough bandwith, a lot of other nice features, and the registration is coupled to "invitation by a friend" only.) I would love to enclose you in my forwards, so that we can see/use the real potential of these new tools.
Currently I forward to MarkDilley, BayleShanks, KennethTyler?, RalfStroebel?, myself and .. ;-). This way, one's wiki postings are backuped in different places, such that the risks of disasters, as Mark had to suffer from, are strongly reduced.
Sure. You can send stuff to sunir.shah@gmail.com. Maybe we should install a ListServ? on meatballsociety.org. -- SunirSHah?