Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: using email and forums for discussion between meetings

[Meg Justus (megj]

<<Excuse my ignorance, Meg, but what is a Delphi?  And what's the value in
it
being "almost new?"  I use email a lot in communicating w/ our group but I
don't know what this technology is you are speaking about.>>

Delphi is a web-based version of what the old forums on CompuServe used to
be like (or may still be like - I dropped CompuServe several years ago).
Delphi's a place where you can set up a thread-based (IOW - you can have
several different discussions running at once, and keep them organized)
forum on pretty much any subject, and make it public or private.
www.delphi.com is the address if you're interested.  The only reason I said
it was almost new is that I just set up our forum last month, so it's new to
us.

Meg
Who will be out of town for few days, which is why I'm going to be quiet...

Thanks!

Ann Zabaldo

Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC. -- America's
Hometown!

"Looking inward from the street, the eye is drawn to the lone power cable
stretched between the North and South Wings.  Festooned with !!!!Warning!!!!
yellow tape, it evokes, briefly, streamer and laundry-criscrossed courtyards
in out-of-the-way Mediterranean villages."   From our resident poet laureate
and bon vivant, Ron Murray.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Meg Justus" <megj [at] nwlink.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 1:44 AM
Subject: using email and forums for discussion between meetings


> I was wondering what others' experience with this has been.  We are a
> relatively new group, spread rather thinly geographically, and would like
to
> supplement our meetings with online discussions.  We have both a
listserve,
> currently used mostly for passing around minutes and making announcements,
> and an almost brand-new Delphi forum.  Our comfort levels with the
internet
> vary widely, however, and I wondered how other groups have
> used/overcome/worked this sort of thing out, so that everyone is involved
as
> equally as they would be face-to-face.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Meg
>
>