Hello folks, I wanted to reply to a to a question I received in my email this morning publicly because I sure that more than a few of you my be pondering the same question.
Question: "May I ask why you are using this forum to promote another one? There are a lot of people on EDI-L and it has taken years to build the membership list. I understand you need to promote traffic to your website or to your forum, however, EDI-L is a highly populated." Our answer: we are not so much trying to advertise a forum as we are trying to get the word out about a resource center. A forum platform just happens to be the best way to accomplish our goal of true community updated content without having to develop a program from scratch. We built this because myself and a few other fellow consultants needed a central place to house information central to our jobs as EDI professionals that could be kept up to date by the entire community. A good example would be: you go to the resource center to find out the vendor link URL to Lowes, you click on the link to just find out that itâs no longer any good. At that point you do a little research to find out the correct URL, once you have the correct URL you can just update the link by posting a reply that hopefully will save a few other poor soles from having to go through the same process. Now why are we sharing it with you? In short we can only do so much and posses only so much information at any one point in time. If you find out something or say receive an 864 about JCPenney making a change to a qualifier; post a short summary of it in the notices and news section, someone will be thankful you did. As the old saying goes, "There is true knowledge in numbers". We have no desire to take anything away from EDI-L because we also are long standing members here that look forward to the nightly updates. Sincerely, Stephen ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L RSS feed is: http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/rss Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
