Perhaps someone (or more than one) would like to write a 'review'
of this for the course - would it help us?
P.
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 02:33:43 -0600
From: Sanford Morton <sanford@halcyon.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <gna-tech@ds5000.dgsca.unam.mx>
Subject: Caucus system for www
In addition to a mailing list, some of our classes might be able to
make good use of a caucus system. This is a bit like threaded news in
which anyone (or perhaps only authorized users) can start a new thread
or reply to an existing thread. The discussion is permanently archived
and both posting and reading are done with caucus system tools.
To see an implementation of a caucus system entirely with a forms
capable web server, see the following announcement from Edupage (Feb
21):
ONLINE FORUM FOR IT MANAGERS
The Center for Information Systems Management at the University of
Texas in Austin has established a home page on the World Wide Web
which it hopes will become a forum for discussion of information
technology management issues. "Mosaic and its progeny will be the
interface that corporations will have to migrate to, and we're
trying to help prepare them," says the Center's director. URL is
http://cism.bus.utexas.edu. (Information Week 2/27/95 p.92)
In particular, there is a thread requesting discussion on
The WWW as organisational support
that's just crying for a GNA comment.
>From what I understand of cgi and forms (admittedly, not much) it
looks like this wouldn't be difficult to implement on sturgeon.
I know there are several caucus systems around (one is called "Caucus"
I think) and they have proved popular. They may be more common than
mailing lists for electronic distance education. I'm not sure exactly
how a caucus system would be used in GNA, or whether it would be a
better solution than lists in some circumstances. But it looks like it
would be worth exploring.
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