"use-rev" means "using Rev" (was 10,000 other threads)

[Marielle Lange]

> Part of 'using' (in terms of the use-list) Rev really does  
> encompass why what's there isn't useful.

My point of view too. I however also agree with Richard that the list  
provided to us by the RunRev Ltd company is not necessarily the best  
place to discuss of this. What we have to be aware of, however, is  
that we have a very wide spectrum of users on this list. That  
everybody has the same interests or should have the same, politically  
speaking is a wrong assumption. You will have noticed that the  
professional users, in contrast, tend to express good to high levels  
of satisfaction.  We are free to do whatever we want. But we are not  
necessarily free to do it right in front of the nose of persons who  
said they were not interested in this kind of discussion/initiatives.  
This would only bring tension and disperse the energy we have to  
give. It would be an excessively bad decision too, to start to  
antagonize the group of professional users against the not for profit  
ones or the other way around. Let's keep this list for what it does  
best, exchange of coding tips. Let's create subgroups to discuss  
strategies that are relevant only to these subgroups.

But then there is the issue that if we go to a yahoo group, many  
persons won't get a chance to join the discussion. Yahoo groups are  
not that usable, yahoo groups require a login, yahoo groups are  
distributed all over the net and are about impossible to find for a   
new user. Yahoo groups are not searched by google (at least I  
couldn't find matches when I copied/paste a few lines from posts  
there).  So, in a sense, discussing on yahoo group is a good way to  
encourage us to procrastinate and have discussions that lead to  
little concrete results and to have us pass for bastards interested  
in nothing but criticising RunRev management options. All the more if  
what is proposed to discuss of is what RunRev should do (that they  
won't) rather than what *WE* users could do to improve our lot.

Yahoo Members only <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rev-biz/post>  to  
discuss runrev business issues or <http://revolution.lexicall.org/ 
wiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=9> to discuss on the need to have  
sublists and where to have them, use as you prefer.

Marielle

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