Mark R. Harris wrote:
"But I'll get off my soapbox now. Here's a prediction: within
two years from today (one year is more likely), the group
will either have migrated to the sort of format I describe,
or been significantly rivaled by a group that does."
Then he further wrote:
"You guys keep saying that the general membership is in favor
of the status quo, but I'm not convinced that you're right.
As people get more exposure in other groups to the
functionalities I've described, I suspect that they will want
them. I know I do."
Hey Mark- is this one of those instances where you'd like to
be able to go back and edit your earlier post, you know, the
one where you promised to hop off your soapbox and then
apparently forgot what you'd said previously?
This thread is hilarious, by the way. I haven't heard one
member of Rara Avis' supposed "Great Silent Majority" chiming
in supporting your position that "they" all want this.
Who knows though? I could be wrong. And if we were on
vBulletin instead of clunky ol' Yahoo!, I'd be able to come
back later and edit this posting to reflect my change of
heart, saying, "I never said that!"
Is it just me, or does that not just give off the slightest
odor of Orwellian Newspeak?
All the Best-
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark R. Harris
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Forum Format
You guys keep saying that the general membership
is in favor of the status
quo, but I'm not convinced that you're right. As
people get more exposure in
other groups to the functionalities I've
described, I suspect that they will
want them. I know I do.
Mark
On 2/18/08, JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> Re your comment below:
>
> "Not meaning to be belligerent about this :), but
with
> other web-based formats that are more advanced
than
> the rather primitive Yahoo Groups, you
> can have the very broad range of
personalized
> functionalities I have described, including
the
> ability to receive emails but **only** the
emails
> you want to receive. Let me put it this way:
if
> formats exist (as they clearly do) that would
allow
> rara-avis-l members to do all that, what argument
is
> there for us not availing ourselves of them? I'm
just
> not getting it."
>
> I think there's a sense here that the current
system
> works, and if it ain't broke don't fix
it.
>
> And, of course, it goes without saying that any
system
> that would give members the option of avoiding
having
> to read my endless repetitins of all that is
wrong
> with Altman's THE LONG GOODBYE should be resisted
to
> the last drop of blood.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
>
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