NYCPHP Meetup

[Gary Mort]

I had considered that, but I couldn't think of a way that site owners could
maintain absolute control over the propogation of their lists.

This seems to call for a central repository.... wheras I don't want any
central repository.

Now, I know at the base level, Usenet works in just the opposite view, where
admins have complete control - but I don't know if there are any user
friendly admin tools for usenet[I know I can admin it....just not sure if it
ever came into the GUI age of admin]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Steve Manes <smanes at magpie.com> wrote:

> Gary Mort wrote:
>
>> The specific usage scenario I envision is to allow schools that follow
>> similiar philosophies[basically following an open source model to organizing
>> and running the school, where students are part of the process not passive
>> receivers of the process.  Two example of this would be the Brooklyn Free
>> School, http://www.brooklynfreeschool.org/ and my childrens school, the
>> Hudson Valley Sudbury School, http://www.hudsonvalleyschool.org/] to
>> share information and discuss issues at both the student level and at the
>> staff and assembly level.
>>
>
> I built something like this for PBS in the early 90s.  It was called
> Learning Link and it was a software network of 70+ PBS stations and schools.
>  What I did was leverage Usenet and INN by creating a hierarchy of private
> local and regional newsgroups that a site could subscribe to.
>
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