[FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 177, Issue 4

[Jon Zingale]

We could always use Git.

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>    1. Discussion Boards (Nick Thompson)
>    2. Re: Discussion Boards (Gary Schiltz)
>    3. Re: Discussion Boards (Gillian Densmore)
>    4. Re: Discussion Boards (Gillian Densmore)
>    5. Re: Discussion Boards (Nick Thompson)
>    6. Re: Discussion Boards (Sarbajit Roy)
>    7. Re: Discussion Boards (Roger Critchlow)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> To: Friam <Friam at redfish.com>, <kitchen at lists.aau.dk>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 18:53:17 -0600
> Subject: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
> I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time for
> a whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
> starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view to
> future collaborative writing.   *Does anybody know of an internet
> discussion utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication? * This
> would mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread
> would  be at the bottom of the list.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:18:54 -0500
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
> I haven't created a group on it, but I do like using Google Groups.
> The list of threads is reverse chronological order, but within a
> thread is ascending by date. You have to have a Google account, but
> signup is free. I've been a Google fan since before it got to be the
> new 800 pound gorilla.
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Nick Thompson
> <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time
> for a
> > whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
> > starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view
> to
> > future collaborative writing.   Does anybody know of an internet
> discussion
> > utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication?  This
> would
> > mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread would
> be
> > at the bottom of the list.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > Nicholas S. Thompson
> >
> > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> >
> > Clark University
> >
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 19:31:36 -0600
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
> Hopefully it works out for you. As to forum software.I've also had hit and
> mis for that. As fellow regular joe  I found for just chatting about things
> Wordpress.com sometimes works really well  The cool thing about that is
> because it's free and you can try a bunch of different setups if something
> goes wrong, no worries!
> Google groups is kind of a mess and I didn't know it was still around to
> be honest.
> I've found FaceBooks groups work well. lol though I humoursly point out
> that also comes with all the weird stuff of facebook and you need to invite
> someone to get them started.
>
> It'll come down to what you like more though. Wordpress.com is free you
> instead of posting rants and raves (like I do one place) to it post stuff
> about what you've read
>
> Their's also goodreads. I simply don't know if you can still make a group
> their or not.
>
> Just some ideas from one everyday joe to another.
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time for
>> a whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
>> starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view to
>> future collaborative writing.   *Does anybody know of an internet
>> discussion utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication? * This
>> would mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread
>> would  be at the bottom of the list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 19:44:37 -0600
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
> Nick a few others: I haven't used some.  they say they're free.so if they
> suck no bigy.
>
> http://www.zetaboards.com/
>
> https://www.proboards.com/
>
> https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-free-hosted-forum-service
>
>
> Oh here we go! see if one of these is one you enjoy using. I haven't used
> some of them. A while back I briefly messed around some with Forumotion. I
> have no idea what it's like now. At that time it had some super fun colors
> and just fun to mess around with. I simply don't know what it's like now or
> if it's still free.
>
> lol if nothing else nick you can safely say: egad. I have more options
> than I know what to do with.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time for
>> a whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
>> starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view to
>> future collaborative writing.   *Does anybody know of an internet
>> discussion utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication? * This
>> would mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread
>> would  be at the bottom of the list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> To: "'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'" <
> friam at redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 20:58:27 -0600
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
>
> Thanks, everybody.  I will look into all of these.  I used GG for several
> years, but they seemed to stop supporting it, and I am surprised to learn
> that it still exists.  Sounds like nobody has conquered the chronology
> problem.  I spent one entire month two years ago trying to write a macro in
> Word that would reorder posts in chronological order, but never succeeded.
> One of the worst impediments was my own practice of “larding” other
> people’s posts.
>
>
>
> Thanks again, everybody,
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gillian
> Densmore
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 11, 2018 7:32 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
>
>
>
> Hopefully it works out for you. As to forum software.I've also had hit and
> mis for that. As fellow regular joe  I found for just chatting about things
> Wordpress.com sometimes works really well  The cool thing about that is
> because it's free and you can try a bunch of different setups if something
> goes wrong, no worries!
>
> Google groups is kind of a mess and I didn't know it was still around to
> be honest.
>
> I've found FaceBooks groups work well. lol though I humoursly point out
> that also comes with all the weird stuff of facebook and you need to invite
> someone to get them started.
>
> It'll come down to what you like more though. Wordpress.com is free you
> instead of posting rants and raves (like I do one place) to it post stuff
> about what you've read
>
> Their's also goodreads. I simply don't know if you can still make a group
> their or not.
>
> Just some ideas from one everyday joe to another.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
> I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time for
> a whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
> starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view to
> future collaborative writing.   *Does anybody know of an internet
> discussion utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication? * This
> would mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread
> would  be at the bottom of the list.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb at gmail.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:31:23 +0530
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
> AVOID proboards.com
>
> They take down fora without any warning or reason under their infamous
> clause 25(a) and they never ever restore a board, so all your work just
> vanishes.
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks, everybody.  I will look into all of these.  I used GG for several
>> years, but they seemed to stop supporting it, and I am surprised to learn
>> that it still exists.  Sounds like nobody has conquered the chronology
>> problem.  I spent one entire month two years ago trying to write a macro in
>> Word that would reorder posts in chronological order, but never succeeded.
>> One of the worst impediments was my own practice of “larding” other
>> people’s posts.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again, everybody,
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gillian
>> Densmore
>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 11, 2018 7:32 PM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>> friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
>>
>>
>>
>> Hopefully it works out for you. As to forum software.I've also had hit
>> and mis for that. As fellow regular joe  I found for just chatting about
>> things Wordpress.com sometimes works really well  The cool thing about that
>> is because it's free and you can try a bunch of different setups if
>> something goes wrong, no worries!
>>
>> Google groups is kind of a mess and I didn't know it was still around to
>> be honest.
>>
>> I've found FaceBooks groups work well. lol though I humoursly point out
>> that also comes with all the weird stuff of facebook and you need to invite
>> someone to get them started.
>>
>> It'll come down to what you like more though. Wordpress.com is free you
>> instead of posting rants and raves (like I do one place) to it post stuff
>> about what you've read
>>
>> Their's also goodreads. I simply don't know if you can still make a group
>> their or not.
>>
>> Just some ideas from one everyday joe to another.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Nick Thompson <
>> nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time for
>> a whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
>> starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view to
>> future collaborative writing.   *Does anybody know of an internet
>> discussion utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication? * This
>> would mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread
>> would  be at the bottom of the list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 07:38:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
> The services at https://groups.io/ were recently recommended by people
> ubhappy with yahoo and google.
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> AVOID proboards.com
>>
>> They take down fora without any warning or reason under their infamous
>> clause 25(a) and they never ever restore a board, so all your work just
>> vanishes.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Nick Thompson <
>> nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, everybody.  I will look into all of these.  I used GG for
>>> several years, but they seemed to stop supporting it, and I am surprised to
>>> learn that it still exists.  Sounds like nobody has conquered the
>>> chronology problem.  I spent one entire month two years ago trying to write
>>> a macro in Word that would reorder posts in chronological order, but never
>>> succeeded.  One of the worst impediments was my own practice of “larding”
>>> other people’s posts.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again, everybody,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>>
>>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>>
>>> Clark University
>>>
>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gillian
>>> Densmore
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, March 11, 2018 7:32 PM
>>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>>> friam at redfish.com>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hopefully it works out for you. As to forum software.I've also had hit
>>> and mis for that. As fellow regular joe  I found for just chatting about
>>> things Wordpress.com sometimes works really well  The cool thing about that
>>> is because it's free and you can try a bunch of different setups if
>>> something goes wrong, no worries!
>>>
>>> Google groups is kind of a mess and I didn't know it was still around to
>>> be honest.
>>>
>>> I've found FaceBooks groups work well. lol though I humoursly point out
>>> that also comes with all the weird stuff of facebook and you need to invite
>>> someone to get them started.
>>>
>>> It'll come down to what you like more though. Wordpress.com is free you
>>> instead of posting rants and raves (like I do one place) to it post stuff
>>> about what you've read
>>>
>>> Their's also goodreads. I simply don't know if you can still make a
>>> group their or not.
>>>
>>> Just some ideas from one everyday joe to another.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Nick Thompson <
>>> nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am about to be exiled again to the Mosquito Infested Bog, this time
>>> for a whole six months.  In an effort to retain my sanity, I am thinking of
>>> starting an online reading group on Peirce or related topics with a view to
>>> future collaborative writing.   *Does anybody know of an internet
>>> discussion utility which faithfully preserves the ORDER of communication? * This
>>> would mean at least that the most recent communications on each thread
>>> would  be at the bottom of the list.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>>
>>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>>
>>> Clark University
>>>
>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>>
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
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>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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>>
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