I personally would prefer an old school mailing list attempt rather than linkedIn groups. Forums are even worse. I think the reason for the low noise ratio of the list was because it was not so well known by everybody. It was and is a place for (softimage) professionals. Students and starters mostly using forums. Many forums, especially the max and maya forums were overrun by hobbyists and had therefore very high noise, what made them unattractive for professionals and most of the old school mailing list people. I would like to keep it that way. Setting up a new mail server and keep it maintained should not be hard and costs nothing (if AD eventually will shut it down in a few years...)
I'd like to suggest one of the really old schoolers like Ed-"doubleR-doubleS"-Harriss or Matt Lind to provide a functional mailing list that runs on their servers and it doesn't need any high bandwith, does it? ;) The list never needed any moderation as far as I know, it was a self organized place used by professionals. Very low cost! How do you think about it, Ed/Matt? Maybe with a backup or some kind of redundant list-server, to make sure the list continue to work if a server runs by a single person, will fail eventually or not longer be available for some reason. I personally put more trust in people being softimage users for 15 or maybe 20 years to keep a softimage list running than I trust in Google, LinkedIn or Autodesk. sven -----Original Message----- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of David Saber Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 6:04 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: C y'all Good timing to repost my invitation to this LinkedIn group. But yes, this group is not a mailing list and I'm not sure one can make it work that way. Anyway it's a good place to gather people. The "XSI Mailing List Contacts backup" Linked In group is for all of us to share contacts and keep in touch. Everyone on the list is invited! First, please put yourself on this online Excel file: http://1drv.ms/1ghGDav To add your name and email, go to file > edit. Please don't fill the "invited on" column. Emails are not made public, but they are entered in the Linked In group. When I have enough contacts, I pre-approve people then send invitations to the LinkedIn group. Cheers, David
