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Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup

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On 3/26/2017 1:45 PM, rickman wrote:
> On 3/26/2017 2:24 PM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
>> On 3/26/2017 4:50 AM, Mark Wills wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 26 March 2017 08:09:22 UTC+1, rickman  wrote:
>>>> On 3/25/2017 6:32 PM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
>>>>> On 3/25/2017 4:23 PM, rickman wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/25/2017 4:33 PM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
>>>>>>> On 3/25/2017 3:24 PM, rickman wrote:
>>>>>>>> I created a Yahoo group for Mecrisp users.  If you are using
>>>>>>>> Mecrisp or
>>>>>>>> are interested in using Mecrisp you can discuss your project,
>>>>>>>> usage and
>>>>>>>> ideas at the link below.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MecrispForth/info
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm thinking not all Mecrisp users use c.l.f.  Now all I have to
>>>>>>>> do is
>>>>>>>> reach them.  lol
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Big mistake not requiring members to be approved, you are going to
>>>>>>> get
>>>>>>> spammers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for that reminder.  I don't approve new members, but new
>>>>>> members' posts will be moderated until they are shown to not be
>>>>>> spammers.  I don't think we will have much trouble with members
>>>>>> needing
>>>>>> moderation other than excluding spammers.  I'm not interested in the
>>>>>> work of moderating.  I don't expect this group to attract too many
>>>>>> members, but you never know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Moderating is not difficult, but spammers left on their own will
>>>>> create
>>>>> many accounts and then bombard the list with spam, one can't delete
>>>>> them
>>>>> quickly enough if the can create a new account without any barriers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Time will tell, I have belonged to groups that were rendered useless
>>>>> until the owners started moderating new user comments and new
>>>>> accounts.
>>>>> I'm one of the owners of a list with over 10000 members and its not
>>>>> bad
>>>>> to keep an eye on things.
>>>>
>>>> I already explained to you that I have moderation on new members.  I
>>>> have a dozen Yahoo groups that work this way and hardly hear from
>>>> spammers.  When they realize their posts will be moderated they go
>>>> away.
>>>>   I even took over a group that was dead from spammers.  I turned on
>>>> moderation on new members and killed any existing members who spammed.
>>>> After a while the spamming all stopped and even the new attempts
>>>> dropped
>>>> off to nearly nothing.
>>>>
>>>> I will say that over the years most of the groups have gone into
>>>> disuse.
>>>>   Mostly because the topics have become less interesting or
>>>> obsolete.  I
>>>> have an ArmForth group that is essentially visited by one poster who
>>>> simply uploads his work to the files section.  He never really
>>>> documents
>>>> his work so not many people utilize it, but some do.  Once in a while
>>>> someone asks a question about his stuff and I don't think I've seen a
>>>> reply.
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping the Mecrisp group will have a bit more success.  I'd like to
>>>> see Mecrisp acquire more documentation.  Some of that can come from
>>>> conversations about what people find hard to use or understand.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Rick C
>>>
>>> Couldn't you set it up on Google groups instead? World+Dog has a google
>>> account, but we're all trying to get away from Yahoo, running and
>>> screaming!
>>>
>>
>> I have a group on groups.io and it's a pleasure to work with it, it's
>> very responsive.
>
> I'll look into this, but the Yahoo group is up and I'm not interested in
> putting a lot of time into running a group.   If you would like to
> create a group on group.io and I don't find it a PITA, I would be happy
> to let you run the group.
>
> I met Terry Porter on an IRC chat, server : irc.freenode.net; channel:
> ##tech40+.  He has started an online documentation page for Mecrisp.  He
> is big on the STM32 line and has done a pretty good job of documenting
> that.  I plan to help document on his site the boards I am using, the
> MSP-EXP430FR4133 launchpad and the TI/Stellaris launchpad.  I also have
> a couple of STM32 boards, but they are still in the packages and have no
> display.
>
> Anyone who would like to work with Mecrisp should check out his docs page.
>
> http://128.199.141.78/index.html
>
> He has also written a program that reads a standard ARM register
> description file and spits out an include file in Forth defining all the
> registers and fields with standard names.  I believe this is what
> Matthias is using in his programs.
>

Well one of the advantages of groups.io beside it being very responsive, 
and no Yahoo account needed to join is that they can migrate a Yahoo 
group, comments and users, so it's pretty simple to move even a very 
large group.

-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

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  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 15:37 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-23 22:37 -0400
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2017-03-27 15:27 +0200
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 10:56 -0400
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 16:24 -0400
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-25 15:33 -0500
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 17:23 -0400
        Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-25 17:32 -0500
          Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 03:09 -0400
            Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 02:50 -0700
              Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 07:56 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-26 11:04 -0700
              Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:24 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 14:45 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 14:16 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 14:53 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 02:16 -0700
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 12:51 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 12:56 -0400
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-29 12:24 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-29 12:32 -0500
                Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-29 14:15 -0400
            Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:44 -0500
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-25 14:42 -0700
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup john <anon@example.com> - 2017-05-03 11:30 +0100
  Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-26 13:56 -0500
    Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 16:29 -0400
      Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-03-31 16:49 -0500
        Re: Mecrisp Forth Startup rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-31 18:16 -0400
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