Dawn -
It seems that there is only one piece of the puzzle that is missing; the ability to
not only receive e-mail from the various forums but also to reply to that e-mail by
way of e-mail (as opposed to writing the reply from within a browser). If that one
feature were implemented I believe quite a lot of the reluctance that has appeared
in the past day or so would be obviated.
While I imagine there are a number of others that would also like to have some form of
digest feature (and I'm one of them), the deal killer for a lot of folks seems to be
the requirement to reply to a message by way of the web.
Regards,
Dave Graham
Storis Management Systems, Inc.
(954) 725-3655 Ext. 102
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From: Dawn M. Wolthuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:16 AM
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Subject: On learning to swim (u2-users U2UG)
To the u2-users community --
I have been on the road and have not read all of the e-mail related to
u2-users going away but did have an exchange with Clif after reading his
message. Just so it is perfectly clear -- the U2UG did not in any way
suggest or encourage u2-users ending -- quite the opposite. Clif had to
move the list to another server a few months ago and he asked if there was
a chance that the U2UG could take it on at that time and we all voted him
in for life, or as long as he was willing and able to continue in his
efforts with the list.
I suspect that Clif thought he might just lighten his load if he taught us
to swim by pushing us into the waters, even if we had no prior intent to
learn to swim. In any case, Clif is on the U2UG Board for the emerging
U2UG and we have a conference call scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday) at
which we will discuss options. Given that we are all grateful for the
work that Clif has done, we don't want to hurt him while we twist his arm,
but we definitely do not want to lose the u2-users community. So, we will
take the input from the list (so feel free to keep writing on the subject
and give us any advice you can) and put our heads together tomorrow and
let you know shortly thereafter how we think we can address the
requirement from Clif that he be able to end his much appreciated run as
the moderator and host for the list.
I'll plan to be back in my office towards the end of this week and Clif
has indicated that he will not just pull the plug if we don't have a
smooth transition to whatever-comes-next for the u2 community by April 1.
Apologies for not having any transition plan, but that is the nature of
the throw them in the water so they will learn to swim approach that
Clif adopted (which, quite frankly, is the ONLY way anyone was going to
let him out of his work with the u2-users list, so I can understand the
strategy, but YIKES -- we will do what we can not to drown!)
Cheers. --dawn
Dawn M. Wolthuis
Chair of the so-far-still-self-appointed emerging U2UG Board
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