That sounds great, but it also sounds like a lot of extra work. Why can't we have both, but have them be the same! SO are you telling me that you like the idea of checking two place to get the info you need/want on WUG. I'm NOT asking that you stop with the forum. All I'm asking for is that when you subscribe to the forum that you get the messages NOT a notification that there is a message. This is the only forum I have seen that does that.
PLEASE DO NOT SEPARATE THE GROUP!! Jeff Cook Network Administrator Whatcom Educational Credit Union -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Frye Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] New Online WhatsUp Gold Forum I'm of the opinion for having both. A forum just makes an easily searchable place to store info. When's the last time you posted a screenshot to the mailing list to explain how to set something up? That is easily done in a forum, and I think a lot of the question such as "How do I monitor bandwidth with WUG" or "How do I setup SNMP" or other questions you see almost weekly will go away. I don't want to get rid of the list either though, I do the same and do most of my reading/writing/replying on my handheld on the trainride to and from work, but I do agree with the larger functionality of a forum such as this. It's more just an expansion to the list I guess. If you don't like the forum, then just stick to the list.. or vice versa. I think, in time, both will come to convey similar information... >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/14/2004 12:29:40 PM >>> An RSS feed DOES NOT provide the functionality that a mailing list does. I have been testing Feedreader and it does OK. You can't reply to a message, you can't forward, you can't save the message in a different folder, and you can't delete a message you have read. So all of the messages just sit there. Also a very big thing to me is that I can't read it while at lunch like I do with all of my other mailing lists and forums. I sync my lists and groups that each has their own email folder to my handheld. I can flip though them while I eat lunch or when ever I have a few minutes like waiting for a meeting to start. I can even write my replies. Now I have to be on-line to read and on-line to reply. If I'm at my desk I have a lot of other things I should be doing. Because of the new forum I have spent an extra 2 hours at work this week reading and dealing with this group. So my big question is why a forum? It has not saved me any time only making it harder and more work to keep up to date. Jeff Cook Network Administrator Whatcom Educational Credit Union -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Foxley Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] New Online WhatsUp Gold Forum This sounds great...The RSS feeds should take care of us who will miss the features of a mailing list. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brian Smith Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] New Online WhatsUp Gold Forum Dear WhatsUp Forum, We would like to introduce you to the brand new WhatsUp Gold forum that is available for your participation. As was requested by many of you, we wanted to offer an easier way for WhatsUp Gold users to communicate together. This new online forum will provide users with an online community and a number of great benefits: - RSS feeds - Threaded discussions - Members can edit or delete previous replies within the forums, - Subscribe to forums and topics and receive email notifications for new posts - New posts since your last visit are highlighted Take a look and sign up today. http://www.ipswitch.com/forums/messages.aspx?ForumID=5 We will still continue to keep this email forum live for a period of time, so that users can interact in the way in which they prefer. It is our intent, however, to take full advantage of this new online forum to really build a strong community. Thanks! Kelly <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Kelly E. Anderson Product Marketing Manager Ipswitch, Inc. (P) 781.676.5734 (F) 781.676.5720 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
