Norm Fisher 2

When are blogs a good substitute for mailing lists? I suppose a mailing list is better if you want confidentiality (more or less). Conchr-l, for example, has a closed membership, and AFAIK, no one outside can read it. On the other hand, blogs are public, unless you install a pw, which could be a burden many people would not want to take on.

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Yes, there are team blogs. Look on the policyguy bloglist and click through to the Volokhs, and The Corner. Those are two of the most well-known group blogs.

For MSIE 6, it looks like all you have to do is hit "post and publish," and there you are.

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I'm not sure that you need to publish the blog after you publish the item .. may be wrong though .. I've done 10 things since I last looked at that. Will check with this one, actually.

Nopers .. when you click "Publish this post" it goes automatically to publishing it.



So .. you only save one step, but .. for great typers like you, it's an important step.


So .. do they have blogs that have two people having a conversation?

Seems like a normal thing to do .. might add interest to some blogs.


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I think the link I gave you has other weird words as well. Another fun place for words is WordSpy

Oh yeah, last time I checked, we can edit policyguy.blogspot templates, settings, etc.

I'm back on MSIE6. I see the "post and publish" button, much like under the old version. All in one step. Now, with MSIE5.5, one must
a. preview
b. publish the item
c. publish the blog.

How clunky.


Cheers.

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Oh that was a good one. My son (junior in H.S.) loves presenting these odd "word of the day" things in chemistry class. I wonder if he can hold on to that one until school starts again in the fall.



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Watching a conversation about political terms that reminds me of this word. For a definition, look here
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Dunno. I suspect it is not a problem. One will, due to varying transmission speeds, arrive at the server before the other. The latter will just have to wait.

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So what happens if we both publish a post at the same time? Wonder if their system will crash.
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Here's what I see on my XP Pro with IE 6 on it (below)

My IE 5.0 version indeed does not have a way to publish without previewing, but the IE 6 has a "post and publish" button at the top. I've included the my 5.0 version of this same blog below the first one.

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Aha. Yes, that's it. A regular user wouldn't have the power to change settings (the location of archives, where blog text gets emailed to, users) or the template. Now the question is why did we lose administrative tools at policyguy and what can we do about it?

Can't see the "post and publish" button. Back to only a 5.5 browser.

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All the goodies have gone down the drain on policyguy? Yes, because for some reason both of us have been demoted to normal posters and not administrators.

It's probably basic because I didn't pay for the upgrade to remove ads, etc.

I get a post and post-and-publish .. use your IE6 version and you will see it better.


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Hey, I notice that this says "Blogger Basic" on the top of the screen, and even "You're using Blogger LoFi." Same as PolicyGuy.blogspot. But on this blog, I can edit settings, template, and users--something I can't do on the new version of Blogger/Dano over at policyguy. It's like all the goodies there have gone the draino. Maybe in time?

What do you think of the the new interface? Better, or just different?

The old version had options of post, or post/publish. I see n either here. Must I always preview? I don't never make misteaks.


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I don't like this orange thingie. But it IS easy to read. That orange text on grey background is just a BIT too hard for my 40+ year old eyes to read.
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You are kidding .. editing causes the text to go away??

This is odd.


When I edit a post the old text is there.

I changed you to an admin, so you can experience the new interface now.
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I wrote something here.

But then I edited it, and the original text is gone.

Say, where's the team member tag?

Remember to read PolicyGuy every day.
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This is a test post .. what's going on here?

Link to knfa.net
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Fight Spam by Taxing Email
Will the flood of spam--MAKE MONEY NOW--lead to taxes on email and federal regulation of the Internet. Christopher Caldwell of the Weekly Standard, thinks so--and applauds the idea.

He recites the dreary statistics: AOL blocks 2.3 billion pieces of spam a day (though more get through); between January of last year and March of this year, the amount of all email that was spam went from 16 to 45 percent; and a million email addresses can be bought for only $500.

Caldwell does not hold out much hope for technology to solve the problem; in an arms race-like scenario, each anti-spam advance is followed by improvements in spamming techniques. The economics are unchanged: the costs of spam are negligible to the spammer, and high to the spamee.

Arguing that tax and internet-free policies of the Net have ruined the email experience for many people, Caldwell (writing for a conservative magazine, by the way), calls for government regulation, as well as taxes. Here's the, uhm, money paragraph:

The Internet economy, as spam shows, turns out to be like a garden: Leave it alone and you will not get (as you might assume in theory) a profusion of wild and interesting growth. No--you'll get the entire space choked off by the most noxious and aggressive weed. And spam has reached the point where it calls for a mighty pesticide. An entire range of federal regulations is going to be necessary if the Internet is to be kept usable; and enacting such regulations responsibly will take legislative prudence and care. A do-not-spam list is a first imperative. But it is also a social necessity that the principle of taxing the Internet be established soon. This will mean retiring the (in retrospect) absurdly named Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998, which placed a moratorium on certain Internet taxes, and was extended in 2001 until November of this year.

It's hard to resist the logic--changing the economic calculus of sending "200 million emails a day" (as Caldwell reports one man doing)--seems to be the best, sure way of reducing spam. Here's how Caldwell sees it going forth:

A penny-per-e-mail charge would drive most spammers out of business, subject them to jail time for tax evasion if they hid their operations, and cost the average three-letter-a-day Internet user just ten bucks a year. If even that seems too hard on the small user, then an exemption could be made for up to 5,000 e-mails per annum.

"Three letters a day" seems terribly low to me. And actually forcing spammers into compliance is a challenge itself, one that may kill the patient to cure the disease.

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Test 1 .. hello there?
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