Murli, While this is going to the list, I address this request to you as the person who started us on this experiment in decision making. (As an aside, I think it's been instructive to observe our process on making a collective decision. There's been a great exchange of information, several experiments initiated. That's been wonderful.) I think we are ready for a decision on listserv or egroups.
So here's my "2 cents worth" delivered as a request to you, Murli. The latest cries of "I'm confused" lead me to think we would be best served by someone knowledgeable making a decision on the list's behalf. Since you've been willing to invest the energy into this, I think you're the right person to do it. The choice of egroups or listserv is a technical one. Those with expertise have given you their opinions. The only negative I heard for egroups was customer support. In all other ways egroups sounds superior. I suggest you make a call on which way to go. If you are satisfied that support won't be an issue, then take the 3 or 4 days to move everyone over to egroups and put out instructions, just as you did when we switched listservs in 1998, that tells people the new e-mail address. As I mentioned, OSI(US) can pay to make the site ad free. Just send me the details. So, there you have it. I think the information to enable action is in. Would you be willing to take the lead on bringing this to closure? Thanks, Peggy
