--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, John McCormick <mcjonster@...> wrote:
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> Ya I agree no offense but that massmind website is terrible.
>
> There's a million poorly placed ads on it and is f-ugly...
Seriously? It's more important to you that the site be pretty than that it have relevant content? wow... whatever...
> Google Sites has free wiki templates and hosting: http://sites.google.com/site/projectwikitemplate_en/
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> It would take 15 minutes to recreate all the info on massmind without the ads and have a true wiki style webpage faq.
The reason why that site has ads is that the ads pay for someone to maintain it. That's why it exists. There are very few saints in the engineering world. It makes just enough from those ads to pay my hosting bill and for the time I spend maintaining it.
> I would volunteer to just cut and paste info into a google webpage but I'm not an expert by any means.
And yet you feel qualified to slam my efforts. Thanks.
> --- On Thu, 5/13/10, Piers Goodhew <piers@...> wrote:
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> From: Piers Goodhew <piers@...>
> Subject: Re: The FAQ, and maybe why there isn't one. Was Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Best Way to Cut PCB
> To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 3:34 AM
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>
> I did look at the massmind site earlier. It didn't seem to have a lot of
> wiki things that I'm used to like auto links, tables of contents, nice clean
> syntax to easily autoformat posts, but I guess I should look again.
Nope, your right, it's a pile of shit. Just read above. But it's a pile of shit that works and has most of the /content/ and actual information that are important on it. To post something you would have to actually type or paste in your text, copy in the URL you wanted to reference (if there is one) and then depend on a human page editor (me) to link things and edit the page if it needed it. The horror!
If you wanted to be a page editor, you would actually have to learn HTML. REAL HTML! That arcane "programming language" that people must go to school for years to understand. Instead of auto linking random words, you would actually have to type <a href="lcds.htm">lcd</a> so don't bother, start a wiki yourself instead.
> The main reason I haven't volunteered for such a job is that I think you
> need to be prepared to put in at least a year (half a year) actually doing
> it, and I try not to make commitments I'm not certain i can keep.
Yeah, I wonder why I bother.
In fact, I doubt I will anymore.
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James.