Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

Skip Kimpel skiplondon at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 16:22:32 EDT 2016


Same here..... -1 for Google Chat.  I much prefer a listserv for the same
reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a
tool (email) that is in my face 24/7.

SKIP

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Rebbe <
matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:

> Google Chat would be a NoGo for me.
>
> My mail app is opened all the day anyway, so the mailing list is the best
> solution for me.
> I know that the forum is also a good source of help and knowledge and i am
> trying to visit it as often as possible.
> Just today i installed an RSS reader to be up to date with new forum posts.
> But the mailing list will be my number one source.
> Why, because i can read and respond very quick and easily.
>
> Google Chat or any other web based system would stop me to participate in
> discussions or at least it would stop me to participate regularly in
> discussions.
>
> But that´s just my opinion.
>
> Matthias
>
> > Am 30.09.2016 um 21:53 schrieb William Jamieson <
> williamdjamieson at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I was raised with a computer, with facebook for my friends and google as
> my
> > study guide. I don't really understand the use-list's format and have
> only
> > attempted to read it maybe 5 times in the 2 years I have been on it.
> >
> > Forums are great but still remind me of my childhood and are generally
> used
> > for specific issues. I would really like a Slack thread that can be
> > indexed, but to ask people to move away from email might be a little too
> > technological for most.
> >
> > As a person who wants to be involved with the community, and seeing that
> > the answers to a lot of problems and issues are contained in this
> massive,
> > unindexed, scattered, blob, of words that spans thousands of emails in my
> > inbox, I would like to make a plea to use any alternative that works.
> >
> > I understand that the use-list is for the OG's but let me ask you, at
> what
> > cost is it acceptable? Even for the OG's, let me ask you, how many
> > solutions pointers to the problems you have had do you think are
> contained
> > within the history of the use-list? Can you pull them up quickly in an
> > organized fashion?
> >
> >
> > William D Jamieson
> > Amplifiid Education
> > Co-Founder
> > (408) 692-5356
> > www.amplifiideducation.com
> > williamdjamieson at gmail.com
> > <http://facebook.com/williamdjamieson>
> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamdjamieson>
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