Can't the moderators of this forum control the spam ? the other
problem here is that one can't hide one's email and therefore it is
subject to harvesting by the leeches of the web.

There are better ways, this is one:

http://www.visualworksforums.org

"Charles" == Charles A Monteiro <charles.monteiro at (no spam) gmail.com> writes:

Can't the moderators of this forum control the spam  ? the other
problem here is that one can't hide one's email and therefore it is
subject to harvesting by the leeches of the web.

There are better ways, this is one:

http://www.visualworksforums.org

There is no mderator, although some groups have that.

However, the spam is more noticeable because the smalltalk vendors have
moved their st discussions to other forums and places.

James Robertson said they use social networking sites, something I disagree
with because it makes it more difficult to look for specific problems and
solutions.

--g

On Sep 12, 3:03 pm, "geoff" <nos... at (no spam) nospam.com> wrote:

James Robertson said they use social networking sites, something I disagree
with because it makes it more difficult to look for specific problems and
solutions.


All of the video and audio is available via the iTunes store as well
(free, in the podcast section). These are things that usenet is
simply unsuited for. And for general announcements and news? As I
said above, I can reach beyond the core Smalltalk audience by using
the broader net.

I still monitor comp.lang.smalltalk, it's just not the place I go to
post news myself.  For that I have my blog, which gets more traffic
than this group, and gets noticed by non-Smalltalkers - something that
simply isn't the case for a group like this.

I also echo everything from my blog out to a Twitter feed ( at (no spam) jarober),
and a subset to the at (no spam) cincomsmalltalk Twitter feed.  Additionally, we
use resources that simply cannot be handled here on Usenet: Video
uploads to our site and various social networking sites (Youtube,
Vimeo, Facebook, Ning), and the audio podcast (our site, mevio,
Facebook, Ning).

All of the video and audio is available via the iTunes store as well
(free, in the podcast section).  These are things that usenet is
simply unsuited for.  And for general announcements and news?  As I
said above, I can reach beyond the core Smalltalk audience by using
the broader net.

On Sep 12, 3:03 pm, "geoff" <nos... at (no spam) nospam.com> wrote:



There is no mderator, although some groups have that.

However, the spam is more noticeable because the smalltalk vendors have
moved their st discussions to other forums and places.

James Robertson said they use social networking sites, something I disagree
with because it makes it more difficult to look for specific problems and
solutions.

--g

Unfortunately, almost all social sites are banned here in China. And
so does several anti-G. F. W. software.

"claus" == claus kick at (no spam) googlemail com <claus.k... at (no spam) googlemail.com> writes:

claus> Ok, that is actually a good reason not to forget about usenet as some
claus> "moderators" appear to have.

Uh, *what* moderators (see earlier post)?

--
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
mer... at (no spam) stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/
Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
Seehttp://methodsandmessages.vox.com/for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

jarober pravi:

There's still no way to post audio, video or images to Usenet - it's a
very low tech way to publish info.  All I can suggest is a visit to
the vendor of your choice's website

But c.l.s is still the only Smalltalk-wide forum we have. Until we
establish the better one, it is better to take care of c.l.s as much as
possible and publish here news from elsewhere in the Smalltalk dialects.
With more and more cross-dialect projects this is even more important.

Best regards
Janko

--
Janko Miv¹ek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Serverhttp://www.aidaweb.si

"claus" == claus kick at (no spam) googlemail com <claus.kick at (no spam) googlemail.com> writes:

There's still no way to post audio, video or images to Usenet - it's a
very low tech way to publish info. All I can suggest is a visit to
the vendor of your choice's website

"claus" == claus kick at (no spam) googlemail com <claus.k... at (no spam) googlemail.com> writes:

claus> Ok, that is actually a good reason not to forget about usenet as some
claus> "moderators" appear to have.

Uh, *what* moderators (see earlier post)?

There's still no way to post audio, video or images to Usenet - it's a
very low tech way to publish info.