Let us not let the perfect get in the way of the good enough. LT has served us for the past years and appears to be good enough for us to swap goods, info, services, and political ideas. Let’s stay the course…it seems good enough to get us where we need to go.
Sara ------ Sara Mattes > On Nov 14, 2022, at 3:26 PM, Allen Vander Meulen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I would personally prefer using a more “modern” platform such as Google > groups, Slack, Facebook groups, etc.. > > However, one must also recognize that the strength of LincolnTalk - and the > reason why it has been so successful in our little town - is its simplicity. > > Yes, it is frustrating, particularly with the daily “summary” emails, when > folks reply without editing-out no longer relevant pieces of a > message-thread, or when someone replies to a thread without checking to see > if they’re restating something that was already said, but that’s the price we > pay for having a solution that is usable by nearly everyone without the need > for dedicated software or more than a bare minimum of computer skills. > Moving to any other solution would compromise that, and would likely make > LincolnTalk inaccessible to a big chunk of the current Lincolntalk community. > > > -Allen Vander Meulen > Beaver Pond Rd > >> On Nov 14, 2022, at 11:32, Laura Koller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Could consideration be made for replacing the LincolnTalk listserv's >> antiquated format with Slack, or some other "modern" group communication >> platform? I find that the repetition of content makes these messages >> unwieldy and quite challenging to read through to find the non-repeated >> content. Thanks for considering this; any thoughts? >> -- >> Laura Koller >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>-- >> The LincolnTalk mailing list. >> To post, send mail to [email protected]. >> Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. >> Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. >> Change your subscription settings at >> https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. >> > > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. >
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