I didn't find Chris' post anywhere near "throwing everything in a pile" and didn't consider it noise at all. How many times have people posted to the list about a cool feature in other software before the EOL and nobody lost their shit? Why now?
I'm on a number of lists so I'm well experienced with the skillful art of creating email filters and clicking on sub-folders. Some may say I have a super kung-fu / cat-like reflex for hopping from one to the other. A click is no inconvenience, don't worry. What I do find as an inconvenience is the absence of a long standing community with decades of experience that cannot be queried with a few clicks and keystrokes. Softimage is not forever and this list / community needs to evolve to something bigger otherwise it's going to die off. -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > Some of us have been down this road before, Eric. Yes, people will be > moving on, but that's not an excuse to throw everything into a pile as it's > just noise, counterproductive, and a disservice to those who really need > the list for something other than as a chat medium to pass the day. > > As for not reading anything you don't want to read - some of us are on the > digest form of the list which means the server concatenates messages > together as one giant email and sends it out. You cannot skip messages in > digest form as everything is inline text, you get everything whether you > like it or not. I don't like receiving digests full of noise as they're > tedious to read, and often lead to situations where I miss posts I am > interested in because they get lost in that sea of noise. > > While having another forum or list for migration and other topics may be > that one extra click of inconvenience to you, it's the right thing to do. > > > Matt > > > > > > Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 21:09:55 -0400 > From: Eric Thivierge <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Is purchasing a new softimage license impossible? > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > > > Yeah I agree entirely with what Raf said. > > In addition if enough people want the discussions about transition > experiences of members of our community to stop here I can get on board. > Just know that when that happens the community will start to dwindle > rapidly. It's the same damn point that's been made over and over since the > EOL announcement. We're going to have to move somewhere else. Softimage is > done. Some of us are transitioning sooner than others. This is going to > leave the community pretty fragmented so topics and sharing of experiences > is going to be very mixed up. > > If you hit something you don't want to read move on. > > Eric T. > > -------------------------------------------- > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > >
