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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:47:10 -0500, Ross Rader <ross@tucows.com> wrote:
>
> As some background, when we started planning the migration last year,
> one of my requirements was that we didn't move to a new platform - i.e.
> Joey had to make a call based on technology that we were already using.
>
What technology are you using in-house for Tucows communications now
that you have given up email?
I've been hearing a dozen times that the change is being made to reduce
the numerous ways that you have to communicate with us. Product X uses
this, Product Y uses that.
I've also heard about how Outlook and Thunderbird, and all of these
other programs can read and write RSS or NNTP.
What's wrong with using Outlook to read and write Emails? I mean other
than the obvious. They arne't removing that feature from future
versions.
When the Blogware was using a blog for communications, I checked it out
a couple of times when I got stuck. And then, half of it was just cause
I thought Blogs were new and cool. Now I have a 250+ article one myself. Since
they moved the discussion to Phorum, I've never been. Ever. When I
went to register for the Discuss list, it said I already had an account.
I didn't even know that.
But when the Discuss list his 3 unread messages, I'm there. One click
is all it takes. Custom alert sounds and all.
And how would a major discussion like this one occur on the web-based
forums? Are we just supposed to sit there and click refresh to carry
on important discussions like this? My email program has this neat
feature that checks my email for me every 3 mins.
I look at the email clients that the Tucows reps are using, Thunderbird
and Apple Mail. I dunno about Apple Mail, but I know Ross was talking
about Thunderbird doing NNTP, so I would guess he's using it to post to
the groups anyway. So he's not cutting down on the number of tools he's
using. And Joey used a NNTP poster himself, so either Apple Mail does
it or he's increased the number of tools he uses.
Outlook, Thunderbird, and my Becky email program removes us knowing the
specifics of how the information is posted. They don't care if it was
email, NNTP, or RSS, or whatever. They all work with all of them.
So it's not the email version of Product X using Y that needs to be
converged. It's the non-email versions.
Bryan Britt
Beltane Web Services
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