SCN: websites to feature

[Lorraine Pozzi]

Well - on the bright side, it's a great way to enhance security.
No users.

I'm not sure about the problem being just clunkiness.  I've been asked
to help a few folks who decided to use the horrible program that
KING 5 was offering - it was dreadful.  But they had a hands-on
session that reassured folks that a human being was available to
help them.  The support, however, was illusory and the Websites 
were dumped.  Well, that is not KING 5's business.  Long, long
ago I thought it WAS the business of SCN. 

My point is that I do believe that there are people who would
be interested in SCN if there were some friendly helpers -
maybe not.  But community centers offering hands-on help a
few times a month would be worth a try, IMO.  It would at
least show that the organization had some interest in the
community.

Lorraine
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Rod Clark wrote:

> > Speaking of content...  did we quietly disappear commercial pages
> > and individual pages?  Rather than wait for an answer I'll
> > venture my opinion that if we did ban them then that was a
> > mistake...
> 
> Doug, 
> 
>    Personal site hosting could have been very important for SCN
> in attracting users, volunteers and suport - a significant
> attraction (and maybe it still could be if we radically upgraded
> it.). But not as it is being offered now. Sadly, our personal
> site hosting is largely moribund because it is so behind the
> times and uncompetitive with the choices much better other that
> people have. Word of mouth has been very unkind to SCN on this.
> Our listing at http://www.scn.org/subscribers mostly hasn't been
> updated for quite a while, because almost no users are
> interested in new personal site hosting on SCN any more.
> 
>    It's so clunky to make and maintain a personal site on SCN
> that people, especially those who are new to the Web, know not
> to come to SCN for that. Our Operations committee is adamant
> that it is impossible to allow our users to use FTP, for Ops'
> own reasons. This means that we have essentially thrown away any
> chance to catch up in this area, as long as we stick with such a
> user-unfriendly system as we have.
> 
>    A few small businesses tried SCN and almost all have since
> moved elsewhere. 
> 
> Rod Clark
> 
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