From: Thom Parkhill (parkhill_at_cypronet.net)
Date: Thu Dec 03 1998 - 02:18:26 EST
On Wed, 02 Dec 1998 23:57:43 -0500, Jane Loyless wrote that the new CompuServe
forum message came from:
>Larry Finkelstein, Wizop 76702,1354
>
>IBM and Thinkpad are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. This forum
>is not associated in any way with IBM Corporation. It is indpendenty
>managed and operated by Creative Systems Programming Corporation, a
>CompuServe Business Partner."
For those of us using OS/2 this is good news indeed. Larry F. is the main force behind
Golden CommPass, an offline CompuServe reader. It's had a bumpy history, but
seems to have steadied a bit. I also think he was working on a replacement for OS2Cim
to facilitate graphics based OS/2 CompuServe usage.
The discussion of the relative merits of listservs, fora like those on CompuServe or AOL,
news groups, or web-based discussion lists (I'm thinking of HyperNews, a program I've
used relatively successfully for electronic discussion in the context of university
courses) turns, for me, on the different kinds of discourse communities found there. It
seems to me that an important facet of this is diversity. I like to see a whole range of
conversations in a whole lot of places because the more conversations there are, the
more likely I am to find one in which I belong.
Thom.
Thom Parkhill
Department of
Religious Studies
St. Thomas Unversity
Fredericton, N.B. Canada
until July, 1999: parkhill_at_cypronet.net
after July, 1999: parkhill_at_stthomasu.ca
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