Eric, You asked: ~~~quote~~~ Did you ever get any responses to this question? I would also love to let people submit mail while in the web-based archives. Any words of wisdom? ~~~end quote~~~ No. I havn't, but am still interested in how to combine listserv with web based conferencing. I have left my original post appended below. Walter >Hi, > >I have Just explored Forum One, > >http://www.forumone.com/ > >which offers a good insight into the world of Web conferencing. >I have used Motet at Cafe Utne, quite nice. *Nothing* beats an >email mailing list such as this -- this is *push* technology -- >it comes to us, and it is fast, not like the web, and can be >worked offline, filed and sorted locally. > >However there are advantages to web conferencing. Several lists >can coexist on a site, with associated text and graphics and >links, and thus create a sense of community. (See Utne.) Forum >One also indexes all of the discussions current on the web in >enrolled web sites -- quite a development, which listserv lists >can not be party to at present. > >The l-soft archives on the web go part of the way. For example: > >http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/psyber-l.html > >I would love to see that incorporate a window which allowed one >to: >[ Write New Message | Reply to message ] etc. My wish is that >the message would then be distributed by email as usual, and go >to the web archive as usual. I would envisage the password >system applying, and it only accepting people who could normally >write to the list. Does this exist already? Have others done >it? > >This is all part of my thinking that the Mailing List is the most >effective technology, for the most complex discussions, and >collaboration. Site appeal of the web, also has value. How can >we have the best of both? > > >Walter > > >_____________________________________________________ >Walter Logeman [log in to unmask] >http://www2.chch.planet.org.nz/~walter/psybernet.html >ICQ UID: 196356 * Eric Marcoullier * Web Director * * http://www.imaginegames.com * Next Generation -- Ultra Game Players -- PC Gamer -- Boot * N64.com -- SaturnWorld -- PSXPower _____________________________________________________ Walter Logeman [log in to unmask] www.psybernet.co.nz ICQ: 196356