Paul Tansley wrote: > >I Agree, sometimes, its quicker and in this business, info goes rapidly out >of date. I tend to keep pretty upto date with technology, as I spend half of >every day surfing the web. However many have better things to do. That�s >leaves these people looking for the latest facts and thinking CD archiving >and colour management are some kind of new discovery. What was a good CD >burner last year isn't necessarily this year. Case in point, another list is >currently discussing monitor choices. A few months ago, one of the monitors >of choice would have been a LaCie. Current thinking is that these are no >longer top dog (of the cheaper end, not Barco's) The new king is the Sony >Artisan. You wouldn't find this info in the Archive.
Dear Paul and list Firstly I would like to express a very heart felt THANK YOU to all Prodigers on behalf of the list Mums for taking the list owner's requirement seriously now. This followed my starting this particular thread at the end of my last list mum stint, when I felt compelled to bring to the attention of the list the problems the no email address requirement was creating for us personally on an hour by hour basis. The replies to this thread are interesting and the more viewpoints we can have the better, as it will help the list owner to better shape the direction and form the list takes in the future. My own personal feeling and it is only my own view, is that the field in which we work is changing so fast that what is the right way to do something, or as Paul points out, will be useless in a week or two. Something that nobody seems to have picked up on so far is that very often new members to Prodig will often only have simple monitor type questions to ask. By expecting them to plough through an archive is not giving them a simple route to join in and I think that if this happened it would be rather sad and might serve to make the list rather elitist. So to get back to the email address issue, I really wonder if we need to continue to insist that those people who want to have their email addresses in their contact details cannot be allowed to do this, after all it's their problem if they get loads of pawn. Additionally if there is no real benefit in having an Archive then we can forget the whole thing! But as I said to one list Mum earlier today, I do not find it a big problem to trim off other peoples email addresses, it just becomes part of trimming and considerate usage of the Prodig list if that's what is required of us. It's up to you to make your feeling known to the list owner by posting to this thread. Cheers Richard (ducking for cover from all directions) -- For quality scans that are really right...No Messing. Satisfaction Guaranteed. New PDF on request. +44 (0)1873 890670 www.rkdi.co.uk =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
