On 14 Jul 2005 at 12:15, Tyler Turner wrote: > I'll be honest. When I was working as an employee of > MakeMusic, I tried to keep up with this list so I > could comment when needed. But boy, there are so many > e-mails going through here every day that keeping up > here meant not being able to keep up with my regular > duties to e-mails, phone calls and the official forum. > Part of the nice thing about the forum is that the > organization into threads makes it much easier to > browse through and quickly see where your input is > beneficial and skip over the stuff where you aren't needed.
I hear you, but there are options to make things work better, such as using an email client for the account you use to subscribe to the Finale list that can thread email messages. For instance, gmail defaults to a threaded view. Another thing that could be done is that MakeMusic could set up a local Usenet server, and use any one of many different mail-to-news converters so that you could use a thread newsreader to browse the list. That would also give MakeMusic the ability to refer to the discussions of a dedicated portion of their user population. It's not that difficult to set up, and it's very easy to use, and would provide a resource for monitoring user opinion and needs. I would think that MakeMusic would want someone's job description to include monitoring this list, in any case. There are too many heavy hitters here to ignore, in my opinion. But it's their business, and if they want to miss such an opportunity, then that's their choice. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
