On Jan 17, 2005, at 01:20 PM, Joey deVilla wrote:
>> 2.) This gives the ability for OpenSRS to simply say "Oh, I wish
>> that topic had never been broached" and delete the entire thread
>> "poof" ... gone, into the ether, with no copies remaining except for
>> whatever local caches exist on various peoples' workstations. With
>> e-mail, there is a guarantee that *everyone* has a copy, readily
>> available until they delete it themselves.
>
> It's a good concern. I don't know if "historical revisionism" ever
> happened prior to my joining Tucows in July 2003, but I can promise
> you this: if it happens, there has to be a very compelling reason. The
> compelling reasons are very few and usually involve lawyers knocking
> on our door.
> Those compelling reasons aside, I'm willing -- as one of Tucows'
> communications people -- to take a little egg on my face, fess up to
> mistakes and deal with constructive criticism. It's part of
> communicating, and I -- and the rest of Tucows - -can deal with that
> just fine.
You say that now. And we believe your intentions are pure. But
tomorrow, when some Sr. VP says "Oh my god, how the hell can we have an
entire section of our web site where people are complaining about how
badly $PRODUCT sucks wind?!!? And we let that sit there forever for
people to view??!?!" there is *no* guarantee of what will happen.
There's a saying about a road to hell and what it's paved with.
> My own reason is to reduce the number of places on has to go to
> discuss Tucows' platform. Right now, some products are discussed in
> mailing lists, while others are discussed in the web/NNTP forums. The
> plan is to bring them all under one system, which means choosing one
> or the other. We chose web/nntp.
I choose not to, I guess, if that's Tucows' choice.
> One very useful advantage to the web/NNTP route is that a single
> thread is archived on a single page (versus Majordomo archives, which
> simply list messages in chronological order). We believe that this
> will be useful for finding answers.
Majordomo sucks. It's acknowledged. There plenty of other mailing list
applications which suck far less.
> I'd like to close by saying that the migration is part of a larger
> plan to communicate better with our customers. That's our only agenda.
> What we want to know is if you like it or not, hence this period where
> both mailing lists and discussion forums are simultaneously active.
I think then, that if this is a democracy, that I vote "No, I don't
like it".
Although, I must admit to not harboring much hope that my "No" vote
will actually change anyone's minds. So far, the replies seem to skew
heavily towards "No", but who knows.
D
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