I side with Sven on the matter.
People seem to have confused the concept of forum with mailing list. If you
want to discuss anything and everything, go to a forum as it's designed for
that sort of thing. people can view only what they desire to view and
easily ignore what they don't care about. Migration, plugins, tutorials for
product X, and whatever will surely be welcomed there.
A mailing list is intended for narrow on-topic discussion and not much else
because any content submitted is distributed to the entire community
intended or not. Having a lot of non-topic discussion on a mailing list is
synonymous to being loud and rude in a library while people are trying to
read and study. While some tangents are OK to keep things interesting,
let's try to keep the balance in favor of on topic discussion. Lately the
noise has been higher than the signal.
Softimage may be EOL, but some of us must continue using it for an
indefinite period of time. When trying to find solutions to problems in a
timely manner using the archives or direct help from the user base, we don't
need our few remaining channels of support clogged with noise causing a
potential solution to be missed in sea of false positives.
Matt
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 00:17:30 +0200
From: "Sven Constable" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?
Then I'd like change "we"with "me" in my statement if you feel more
comfortable with it. I do respect you the same way as I respect the list.
This list is the most proficient source of information in a same way a
platform for professionals is meant to discuss even everything else. That?s
my point. This is the softimage mailing list. I read maya topics all the
time. 3Dsmax, for gods sake and will tolerate it. And Houdini? Well, it's
very welcome and Modo for sure. But discusing freeware? C'mon!
Well the problem I had was not actually arguing with specific modeling in
Blender but the promotion of it in this list. I do not think this is the
right place to promote software.
sven
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mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:19 PM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible?
Hey Sven,
I'm not sure you have the right to police this list like that. I don't mind
if this kind of stuff is posted here. So when you use the word "we" I'm not
sure who you're speaking for but it certainly isn't the whole of this list.
Anyone wanting to share new ways of working and tools should be able to.
This wasn't forbidden before the EOL for Softimage so it shouldn't be now.
Especially since the EOL.
Eric T.
On 5/14/2015 5:10 PM, Sven Constable wrote:
Hey Chris, we have some problem if people want to promote their software in
a inappropriate way. ADSK did this this on the list. Newtek an SideFX did it
as well. It's alright. But please keep in mind, this is the softimage
mailing list.
If I want to model with hobbyist software, controlled by hobbyists I will
choose Blender. If you want to promote a software for hobbyists, you should
use the appropiate forums.
sven
