I know I already added my +1 earlier in this thread. However, I just wanted to bolster the argument for continuing to have email as an option for the discussion groups. I *rarely* visit any of the web-based forums for any software company -- for all of the reasons voiced by others on this list. I was a Flame user for many years before making Nuke my comp tool of choice. Autodesk attempted to eliminate their flame-news emailings and switch everyone over to their forums. There was also a hue and cry from the artists on those lists! In the end, they kept both. You could post to the forums via email and receive single or digest emails. I don’t know if it is still that way, but it is a best-of-both-worlds solution, IMO. It is *so* much more convenient to filter and reply-at-will to posts that I feel I might be able to contribute to. Some postings I read right away and some I save for later reference. Searching my own mailboxes is a piece of cake. *PLEASE* make it possible to continue receiving emails! (Please?)
Thanks, Rich Rich Bobo Senior VFX Compositor Armstrong White Email: rich.b...@armstrong-white.com <mailto:rich.b...@armstrong-white.com> http://armstrong-white.com/ <http://armstrong-white.com/> Email: richb...@mac.com <mailto:richb...@mac.com> Mobile: (248) 840-2665 Web: http://richbobo.com/ <http://richbobo.com/> > On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Randy Little <rlit...@rslittle.com> wrote: > > Nathan the amount of noise from a forum emailed to you is INSANE. Think > about how many people on the mail list complain about anything off topic > being noise now. If I was getting forum emails it would just go off the > charts. Digest Oye, read through a zillion topics again. > Email. goes in thread One email subject and all email go into that thread > and I never see another email accept the original. Forum would be a new non > threaded email for every forum post. At least thats has been my experience > with other forums. > > > > > > Randy S. Little > http://reel.rslittle.com <http://reel.rslittle.com/> > http://imdb.com/name/nm2325729/ <http://imdb.com/name/nm2325729/> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/rslittle> > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Nathan Rusch <nathan_ru...@hotmail.com > <mailto:nathan_ru...@hotmail.com>> wrote: > I would love to keep the mailing lists alive as well, although I'm not > vehemently against forums. > > However, I think it's worth noting that the interchange between the lists and > the old forums is (I believe) nonexistent at this point. There are a ton of > topics on the forums that most people here aren't aware of, and none of what > is posted here ends up on the forums. In other words, there's effectively a > small, detached community of people on the list side, and a (probably much > larger) separate community on the forums who either don't know the lists > exist, or don't care enough to figure out how to use them. Granted, this > keeps the signal-to-noise ratio of the lists at a very nice level... > > For those of you planning to jump ship, while I'm not on the new forums yet > myself, I think it should be possible to set up your forum account so you > receive an email whenever a new topic is posted, or a daily topic digest if > you preferred. This would make it behave somewhat more like a mailing list, > except you would need to click a link instead of "reply" to respond. Food for > thought, maybe. > > > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk > <mailto:Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk>, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > <http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/> > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > <http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users> > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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