My thoughts about mailing lists and alternatives... I prefer the mailinglist as te primary means of contact. I have every DP email received since I fist joined the mailing list in 2000 Just in the last few months I have made at least half a dozen searches through them so I could find things that I had a vague recollection about...
I skim through every posting that arrives... I do not need to go to it, they come to me, and are nicely filed away... I also have a Facebook account and a MySpace account, I look at those, but only when I get an email saying I have a message from someone. I rarely proactively go to it looking for things. The LinkedIn one would not professionally be much benefit to me... For a start I do not like publishing details about me which could lead to identity theft, so my Facebook and MySpace accounts are very sparse, so I could not imagine myself publishing professional information. I also have a suspicion about "free" services. For instance, unless people have kept track of the computer press, I suspect not many people know that under the most recent terms of use that by posting a photo on Facebook, that you are signing over exclusive rights to Facebook to use that photo in anyway they see fit. A professional photographer friend of mine said he was about to put some photos of a wedding that he took photos at, and he realised that if he sold the photos he uploaded to Facebook he technically would be in breach of the agreement with Facebook. Actually the fuss about Facebook has been even worse as the terms of use went on to include all content and not just photos, and content that has been uploaded even after the account is closed remains the exclusive property of Facebook. There are criticisms of a number of social networking sites. LinkedIn had some controversy when it decided to make memberships of Groups limited to 50 people, but the worst thing is that they did it retrospectively. Even Facebook, terms of use, which are still being debated, went on to claim rights over material that had been posted before the new terms of use were to come into effect. Anyway, that probably enough of my 2 cents worth Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 8:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] LinkedIn Here's one more... please keep the DP list as it is! On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:15:10 +0100, Charles G. Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe the list server works very well. > I also believe that we may gather other DP users through LinkedIn to > refer to > this DP list. > Charles Wolf > P.S. When replying, make sure your email is addressed to > [email protected]. > This last bunch as not been. > Jens T Hoeg wrote: > Jens Hoeg agrees. > Listservers are easy and simple and not "old fashioened" Please free me > of Linked-in and all other sorts of complicated systems where you need > to do this and that to sign in. What we need is a simple hassle free > system where you can log on and sign off with a simple command and where > you receive your messages in your mail box and can easily filter them to > a subfolder if so you want. > No change to DATAPERF please! > Jens > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: 4. marts 2009 22:43 > To: 'DataPerfect Mailing List' > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] LinkedIn > I ditto "It's Me"'s post. > Malkie > On 4 Mar 2009 at 22:15, It's Me wrote: > I truly hope that the current mailing list will remain as it is. > It works just fine. > Google groups and all other flavors are (if not already) sooner or > later will fill my screen with adds. Also. I'm not waiting for even > more spam to fill my mailbox. Neither am I willing to give away my > privacy to these companies or so called social sites (They know > already enough of me). If however the switch still would be made, I > sadly have to remove my name > from the DP mailing list. > Please keep this in mind when discussing the matter. > There are DP users out there who don't feel the need or want to move > to another mailing mechanism. > A worried DP user > On 3/2/09, Tony Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings to all from rainy Northern California. > Triggered by an article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle > last Fall, I was lured into LinkedIn. > I suggest this as another platform to gather DP enthusiasts. > There are a couple of DP'ers in my network. > I look forward to reeling in more. > All the best to all, > Tony -- Regards, Geert De Baets _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
