VMs: Re: Yahoo -- VMs -- New mailing list address -- possiblyshort-term

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Java and javascript are unrelated as Java is a compiled language while
harmless little javascript is interpreted. Javascript downloads much faster
and runs fairly quickly because it is text, while Java downloads slowly
because it's compiled and runs extremely quick once loaded on your system.

John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Voynich Ms. mailing list" <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <AFScott@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Yahoo -- VMs -- New mailing list address --
possiblyshort-term


> Hmm. I have nothing against Java, but then again there is this little
problem
> brewing out there on the ether...
>
> I hope you can access this:
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/la-030802sun_wr.story?coll=la%2
Dap%2Dtopnews%2Dheadlines
>
> Regards,
> Dana Scott
>
> John Grove wrote:
>
> > Colour me confused once again... but, couldn't we just build our very
own
> > bulletin board with our own membership sign in and not use Yahoo? Any
> > webhost out there provides enough space to run a board and there are
enough
> > free cgi scripts to build a simple or not-so-simple board. The question
> > isn't whether we need to be housed on some commercial enterprise that
> > flashes ads at you - it's do we want all our conversations exposed to
the
> > whole world and searchable by google...
> > For that matter, we could exclude the webpages of the webboard from
being
> > indexed by robots etc and nobody could ever find us...
> >
> > Do we want to be able to view the pages in HTML or do we prefer to use
email
> > because we like to download the files from our server onto our computer
for
> > later viewing in a text only format? If you haven't guessed yet, I'm
> > starting to convince myself that a webboard is a better solution to an
> > active discussion group. It can be controlled for
reading/writing/searching
> > as required. And it can display in various fonts on various operating
> > systems and browsers....
> >
> > I don't see what the fear of javascript could be -- It's quite a helpful
> > scripting language for making the pages do lots of magical things [and
it's
> > completely harmless (cookie-abuse market tracking aside)].
> >
> > John.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jacques Guy" <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Voynich Ms. mailing list" <voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 5:50 AM
> > Subject: VMs: Re: Yahoo -- VMs -- New mailing list address -- possibly
> > short-term
> >
> > > Just yesterday I stumbled across a Yahoo discussion
> > > group (or whatever they call themselves) about
> > > Easter Island. I wanted to post an answer to a
> > > question put there, but I had to register.
> > >
> > > After an hour of effort, I gave up in disgust.
> > >
> > > First, I had to give my country of origin and
> > > my postcode. No business of yours, folks, so
> > > I clicked on the first country in the list
> > > (USA) and entered 123456 as postcode. The wretched
> > > thing complained that it was not a valid postcode.
> > > My curiosity awakened, I tried Bangladesh. Same
> > > story. Mind you, had I wanted to try France, it
> > > was not on the list displayed (but Thailand was),
> > > I would have had to enable JavaScript first,
> > > then click on the link to more countries.
> > >
> > > Then I was asked my sex. It complained when
> > > I left it out.
> > >
> > > Then my occupation. Thankfully, there was "other".
> > >
> > > Then my title. It complained when I left it
> > > unanswered.
> > >
> > > Then... I forgot.
> > >
> > > Finally, I had to choose a member ID. Now there are less
> > > than 200 people on that list, so I was surprised when
> > > all the IDs I tried were knocked back: already
> > > attributed. TeHaha, TeRoro to start with. Then
> > > I got sick of my Polynesian names being rejected,
> > > and I used some names I had made for myself when
> > > playing Ultima VII. Kaa. Already taken. Tskaa.
> > > Already taken (what???? yes.). Into Japanese now.
> > > Tsurezuregusa. You've guessed: already taken.
> > >
> > > It was clear by then that your proposed user name
> > > was matched against all the members of _all_ their
> > > lists.
> > >
> > > When you add to that the ads which apparently come
> > > gracing your mailbox... count me out.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>